The online help for Jot actually has animations that show how to write the characters. This was neat because with both character sets, some letters have more than one way to write them. Another VERY nice feature is that you can actually see what you write when you are drawing the letters in the Jot area. The drawing area is almost identical to the Palm III. You also have the option to switch the number and letter area around… great for southpaws.
And, the another nifty feature is that you can size the letter and number areas. The Casio also comes with a nifty sync cradle. It also has an AC adapter jack built into the back of the cradle an AC adapter is not included with the E package though…and must be purchased separately.
The E fits easily into the cradle, but you have to hold the base of the cradle to remove the E The Casio cradle knows when you have inserted the PDA and will automatically initiate a sync. This is a nice feature but can get annoying if all you wanted to do was install a program.
Fortunately, you can set things up so it only syncs when you tell it to. I did have some unusual problems with the serial communications and syncing. It seems that if I had Microsoft Frontpage running and synced the E, it would do something freaky to the Frontpage webserver so that I would have to shut it down and start it back up again.
It also seemed to disconnect my modem if I was online and synced. I had the E cradle on com1 and the modem was on com2. A nice feature of the E is its compact flash slot. I noticed that apps for Windows CE machines are large! Much larger than the same type of apps on a Palm III.
For instance, the Tetris game that comes on the bonus CD is about 74k. There are several Tetris games for the Pilot that are from 7k — 24k. The major disappointment with the E is that the battery life is quite short. With the E, I got about hrs on the set of batteries that came with the unit.
All I ever saw it display was GOOD… this was even when it was shutting off automatically due to low batteries. The E really needs a better power app that displays an actual voltage. Many people have also complained about the system speed. You do see the little hourglass quite often on the E, but only for a second or so at a time. Actually closing applications via the task manager is what was really slow!
The Casio E also has a Infrared port. You can use this to send information to and from other Palm size PCs or to sync with your PC if it is equipped with an Infrared port. I was not able to test this part of the hardware.
The CDrom that comes with the E is easy to install. It will install Windows CE Services. It is just like opening any other folder on your PC. You can copy and move files from other folders to and from this folder.
The only really problem I found is that navigating through the folders on the E is s-l-o-w. There are definite pauses as you go in and out of folders. The syncing software is a snap. You can set things up so that as soon as you plug the E into the cradle, it will automatically sync with the PC. Then when you sync the E with the desktop, the messages will be sent out. There are quite a few options that can be set with regards to the way you want your email on the desktop and E to be synced.
I was able to easily move messages to and from the E and desktop using Microsoft Exchange. The E has another feature called Channels. This features lets you subscribe to web pages and have the content automatically update on your E You can then view the channel data with graphics and sound on your Palm size PC. I tried this several times and finally gave up. Note Taker Application: This application will let you create text notes with sketches mixed in with the text.
I really liked app once I figured out everything it could do. What I liked was the ability to add the ink drawings. The instructions were minimal and not very clear. I finally figured out that you had to press the SELECT button, then tap in the middle of a drawing and drag it to the desired location.
If you click on the cross hairs and drag your stylus, the drawing moves. I thought for sure that I had done it once, but could never repeat it. If anyone out there knows if a drawing can be resized, please let me know how to do it One great feature that was barely mentioned in the manual was the ability to format the text and drawings. You have the options to have bold, underlined, italic, different line widths, different colors dark grey, light grey, white , strike through, font sizes, fonts Tahoma, Courier New.
The notes files also sync to your PC and can be loaded into Word with all the font formats and drawings intact. Voice Recorder Application: I liked this app. This is great for capturing ideas while driving. You can also play back, pause, rewind, and fast forward all with the Action button. The sound files are saved in. WAV format so they can be manipulated easily on your desktop PC. The files can also be filed in folders on the E Calendar: This application allows you to schedule meetings, appointments and other events with alarms that go off to remind you of them.
It has a daily, weekly, monthly and a yearly view. The month view is unique in that it shows two clock dials for each day. One dial for AM and one for PM. Then if you have something scheduled during the day, the appropriate time slice of the dial is darkened in to show what slice of the day it is devoted to. Unfortunately, the yearly view is just like those little calendar cards that your insurance agent gives you.. You can tap on a date and jump to the day view of that day though. A nice feature of the calendar app is the ability to assign a category for an event, or meeting that you have entered.
You can then do a sort based on a category. Contacts: This app is nice. It has a rolodex tabbed view with alphabetic tabs on the side of the screen to let you navigate quickly to a specific contact. You can configure how you which columns of information you want in the rolodex view. You can keep all kinds of info about a person in each contact record. It has separate home and work pages for each contact. You can also associate a category with each contact and then sort based on that category.
The Contacts app is nicely done. I would use it quite often. Tasks: This applications allows you to input to-do tasks with start date, end date, priority, and category associated with them.
The daily alarm and time signal do not sound. The daily alarm only sounds. The time signal only sounds. Press A. Working range The stopwatch display is limited to 59 minutes Stop The second runner finishes. Record the time of the first runner. Split release Record the time of the second runner. Press L to move to the month setting. Press A to increase the number. Press L to move to the date setting.
Press L to move to the day setting. Pressing A advanc- es to the next day. And press C to complete. Press L to move to the hour setting. Press L to move to the minute setting. If confusing information appears on the display it means entry sequence was incorrect.
Please read the manual and try again.
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