Casio em 500 software

It is smaller and has rounded sides instead of its more brick-like E series siblings. Doing that actually makes it the largest Pocket PC.

EM and E It feels significantly lighter and smaller in your hand. The front of the unit has two LEDs at the top. The left LED which is the battery charging indicator glows red while charging and then turns green when the battery is fully charged.

The Right LED blinks red when an alarm is sounded. You also have the option to set alarms so that this LED is your only notification of an alarm. The display which measures 2.

The colors are vivid and bright. But like other TFT screens, this screen is not easily viewable in direct sunlight. It turns very dark even when the brightness is turned up to the max. Below the display is the joypad, speaker and application buttons. The joypad is easy to use and is great for one handed navigation and games. The EM joypad is shaped differently than the E series joypad.

Instead of being pretty much dome shaped, it is now concave or more bowl shaped. This makes it easier to use because the pad of your thumb can grip the edge of the button easier. The button rocks up, down, left and right. Unfortunately, you can not press the button in to select something.

You must use the side action button for selections. I hope Casio decides to remedy this situation for future devices. There are also three application buttons which launch by default the Casio Menu program, Calendar and Contacts applications. Although the two bottom buttons look like they are just one large rocker button, they are in fact two separate buttons.

These buttons are easy to press but have no real tactile feedback to them. The speaker which is the middle has what I think is the best audio output of all the Pocket PCs currently available.

It is not as tinny as the iPAQ. The sound is similar to the E but is louder and clearer. The stereo output from headphones is also better than the other current Pocket PCs. The bass is very good as is the treble. The power button is pretty small and is slightly hard to activate because of the size. I tend to use the tip of my thumb to turn the unit on and sometimes find that I have to press it more than once to actually power the unit it on.

It is serrated and has a small tab that your thumb can grip in order to press or rock the spring loaded wheel up or down. I think it should have been switched with the AC adapter location. It seems a little awkward to pick the unit up and activate the recorder with one hand.

I did notice that almost every setting yielded a certain amount of background whining or white noise when playing the recording back thru the Casio external speaker or headphones.

After transferring the recording to the desktop PC, it sounds perfectly fine and clear though. The IR port strength seems pretty mediocre. The farthest I could separate the units was about 19 inches. Anything farther than that, and one or the other PDA would time out before making a connection.

The right side of the unit is devoid of any buttons and just has a clear rubber-like grippy bar. Although this helps keep the PDA from slipping out of your hand, I think it looks a little cheesy. On the bottom of the unit is the serial port that the included USB cable plugs into. You can optionally purchase a USB cradle, serial cradle or serial cable. Check out the results from some syncing tests that I performed.

The downside of the MMC form factor is that memory cards, PC Card adapters for PC transfer , and modems aren't yet available but they are expected some time in October, according to Casio. The 7. You can select from gray, green, yellow, blue, or red cases, each with silver trim, to show off the EM's relatively large, bright, 3. A joystick-like menu navigation control and programmable application launch buttons are carried over from the E The EM has a monaural microphone and speaker, a stereo headphone jack, an infrared port, a rechargeable lithium ion battery rated for 6 to 7 hours, depending on usage , and a USB interface.