Casio has made its latest personal digital assistant, the Cassiopeia E-200, so expandable that it is sure to appeal to the geeks among us.
The feature-rich PDA is equipped with both a Compact Flash card slot and a Secure Digital slot. You can also buy an optional PC card unit to provide a third slot.
You might wonder why anyone would need so many slots in one device. For a serious geek, however, there can be no such thing as too many expansion slots.
You can boost the built-in 64 megabytes of random access memory with an SD or CF memory card.
To get Bluetooth connectivity, you can use either the SD or CF slot to stick in a third-party SD or CF Bluetooth card. With the PC card unit, you can stick in a wireless modem card to get general packet radio service connectivity or Wi-Fi access. Or you could insert a Wi-Fi CF card and a GPS unit in the PC card slot - the possibilities abound.
Measuring 13x8.2x1.7cm, it is not the most compact Pocket PC around. It is slightly larger than a pack of playing cards and looks heavier than its 200 grams. Built for robust use, it is not as sleek as Toshiba or Fujitsu Pocket PCs.
The device runs on a 206 megahertz Intel StrongARM processor and has 32MB of Rom. Casio says that you can get up to 10 hours of continuous use from the two included batteries - a lithium-ion main battery and a small backup - both of which are replaceable.
