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ha ha, sounds like I need one of those!

@HandheldComputing i was also on the REX6000 development team. We were constrained by the technology of the time since we were among the first adoptors of the touch screen, and well.... turns out they were fragile. I wanted to offer an "RMA" and checked my personal stash for a replacement for you but unfortunately I've run out. Thank you for choosing Xircom!

Well that's a steal! It has a slightly newer OS (though the former can be re-flashed) the keyboards are different (couldn't say which is better) and the newer model has less buttons.... which is weird. I'm sure there are other subtle differences but are otherwise basically the same. Nice device to use though 😃

They are sturdy, and have great build quality - it's a nice device to use. Also while it is heavy it was light for the time 😉

Chrome OS has surprisingly high handwear requirements and is wants 64bit architecture so sadly its not an option

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 no but like every electronic device ever conceived it can run Doom 😉😉

There's a huge advantage of sticking with ARM and that is the software availability. there's not a huge amount of MIPS software as it wasn't long into 2001 that MS insisted that the PPC platform move completely over to ARM CPU architecture

@HandheldComputing Oh no doubt the iPAQ was the winner and paved the way for every smartphone today. Remember at the time WinCE and it's apps where MIPS/SH3/ARM but certainly as a kid I had no idea which would win. I thought the iPAQ was ugly and expensive. The HP had the most beautiful metal finish, was elegant looking and the previous model was featured in a bond movie and HP went all in on cool James bond advertising which a little me was most impressed by. It's sad there was no cohesion for the devices. My Jornada didn't get to upgrade whereas the iPAQ did. I loved CE so much that I ended the era with the most elite Dell Axim that all together with GPS was near £800. Always wanted the palmtop Jornada but had an NEC mobile pro unfortunately

Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for the sub!

That is very kind of you ❤

3-Lib was ace, I have done a few Psion videos but no where near enough!

I think so! Its a great bit of tech

And they did the same for tablet PCs!

I agree 100% MS did to WinCE what they had done with its bigger OS, making it bigger and more bloated with every release until later versions were so laggy they were hard to use...

I must admit I liked XP tablet 2005 but they soon got rid of that...

Ha ha thats so funny, did you have any others? I could review those for you too 😉

Thank you for letting me know, I thought the USB plug and play had be introduced on WM2003 - The E800 really was ahead of its time!

We know that all handhelds eventually become a glass rectangle with very few buttons which is a real shame 🙄

Absolutely, pop a password on and its about as safe as it gets! I'm pretty sure you can get an encrypted wallet for storing passwords etc too

The Casio Business Navigator range is pretty cool (but they are💰💰💰) , it's on my ebay list so if I manage to snag one I will defo do a video 😃 Glad you liked the video

You mean the drag queen? If only you knew 😉

Glad you liked it, feel free 😃

The SD cards are thicker (marginally) but the MMC have an additional set of contacts on them which cannot be read by the SD slots... Certainly the MMC slot on the EM-500 is currently using an SD card and I cannot use the MMC cards I have in SD slots

​@HandheldComputing Are you sure, my experience is the exact opposite but I have not used a Casio

@@HandheldComputing I did check this and this is 100% correct: every SD slot can use SD and MMC cards because compatibility with MMC is mandatatory for SD slots and specified by SD Card Association in SD Card Standart that every SD card use For example, page 24 of the "Physical Layer Simplified Specification" v1.01 Apr. 3 2004 "Compatibility to MultiMediaCard The SD Memory Card protocol is designed to be a super-set of the MultiMediaCard protocol1. The main additions are the wide bus option and the content protection support (refer to Table 3 for details). It is very easy to design host systems, capable of supporting both types of cards. The intent is to enable application designers to make use of the exiting install base of MultiMediaCard, unless the application cannot do without either the fast data transfer rate (wide bus), or content security" "The initializing procedure in the SD protocol is defined to successfully identify either a MultiMediaCard or a SD Memory Card, which ever is currently connected on the bus. After card detection, the host executes the initializing procedure and ends up with an identified card of a known type." "The physical dimension of the SD Memory Card is thicker than MultiMediaCard (2.1mm vs. 1.4mm; refer to Chapter 9) but it is defined in such a way that a MultiMediaCard can be inserted into SD Memory Card socket." www.sdcard.org/downloads/pls/archives/

@@HandheldComputing Maybe You can make a video about history, differences and compatibility of MMC and SD cards?

@@prk55 well you do have me questioning it but the SD card spec wasn't finalised until 2000 and the MMC had already been around a while. The EM-500 is specifically an MMC card slot but I have an SD card in it... OK so I have just put an MMC into the N300 which has an "SD" slot and it worked fine so perhaps they are to some extent interchangeable 🤷‍♂go figure as that isn't what the internet told me 🤣🤣

I agree, having used graffiti for years now I don't even need to look at the screen and best of all it works as fast as you can even on Palm OS 1 with its 16Mhz CPU!

The last MIPS powered Casio, all ARM CPUs after that. Its a great device you should dust it off and have a play 😉

@@HandheldComputing I think main battery died (25 years old after all). Is it easy to find replacement these days?

@@henson2k They are available, its ID is JK-211LT pop it n google. You might be able to cautiously force some charge into it as long as its not swollen - thats whet I did to mine and I get 3 hours run time now

@@HandheldComputing In my E125 it's JK-210LT, just bought similar battery on Amazon, will let you know how long it will hold charge. At least backup battery is universal 2032!

@@henson2k Yes please do😃 FYI the EM-500 uses a different battery to the E1xx series. On the EM500 the contacts are on the short edge while the E1xx they are along the long edge

Thank you for the heads up, I did not know that was a thing but speaking to Super Wife she says the same thing happened to her! Glad you are back and enjoyed this video! I might add a reminder to check notifications are on in the next video 😃

Wowzers 50MB mobile data!!! Im shocked it was only £50+VAT! Did you have an ultramobile laptop or just a standard 12" 3KG kind of thing? in 2000 there would be nothing cooler than getting your Sony Vaio Picturebook or Toshiba libretto out on the train and surfing the net!!! 😎

I went through a lot of handhelds in a similar way through my late teens and 20's, they were defiantly jealous!!! 😉 Do you have a favourite handheld?

@@HandheldComputing I think the Dell Axim was a favorite because it was boxier and easier to put in a pocket and to hold onto. The Compaq was more powerful, but it had an odd shape and didn't want to fit in a shirt pocket.

@@KarlWitsman Sometimes being able to easily carry is far more important than the specs! Is that the Axim X30? very square!

@ It may very well have been that model. It's been so many years now that I cannot recall.

Glad you enjoyed it 😃

Yes the GPU which seems to make things worse... At least thats what I found with the HTC advantage, video playback was better on the "lower spec" pocket Loox 720 as it didn't have a GPU 🤦‍♂️Most counter intuitive and sch a shame, as you say it could have been a game changer!

Some of the Jornada's were good but the design and screens in that 1999-2001 period left a lot to be desired

I was fortunate enough to have a Casio CALCULATOR watch when I was at Junior School 😁, so cool 😎

As CE became Windows Mobile the OS just became too sluggish, there were lots of cool phone/PDA combos made with WM5/6 they are cool but laggy! I would love an AMOLED screen for my Jornada 728 ❤️

You and me both! I've been using the EM-500 as a daily driver for 2 months and love it, but for me its time for a change I'm swapping to a Sony Clie TH55 with a video to follow....

They certainly added some "fun" when they set about the design for the EM-500, so much cooler than the E-1xx range. Sony have some incredible designs, there's a couple in my collection and they always had great screens 😍

@@HandheldComputing Do you think you'll be able to get your hands on their Pocket Viewer series? It's their PDA with their proprietary OS and I own one! But sadly the screen is faulty now... :( Check the link below. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket_Viewer

The E-115 is a really solid device, it is a little slower but unless you are playing MP3s/video its not noticeable, in hindsight I do think I should have held out for a blue/red EM-500 though!

The Palms tended to be a little cheaper but not by a lot but the hardware specs where massively lower in part due to the more efficient OS. I did a palm vs CE early years video, there will be a follow up soon ruclips.net/video/ToPuOhkonmI/видео.htmlsi=2t4tzY3Sgi6aRE-M

Good to know about the batteries as I did struggle to find them for this model where they are readily available for most others. The older Aero 2100 had an early reflective TFT and it was terrible for indoor use, later true trans-reflective screens like the ones used on the Sony Clie range are amazing and give such good viewing angles too! You do need an impressive backlight for transmissive screens in direct sunlight I don't honestly think that was achieved until quite recently.

@@HandheldComputing Yeah, Sony CLiE and VAIO VGN-U50 (70/71/750/8) transflective LCDs were amazing (Sony own LCDs). Best at the time of appearance - high refresh rate, no flickering (DC LED regulation, not PWM), almost no gap between the sensor and LCD itself. These impressive backlights appeared in early 2010s. Smartphone market was in avant garde there

@@kudryavchik Quite a few PPCs and PALM OS devices also utilised Sony screens, I still think they look great!

@@HandheldComputing Yep, Ipaq 4700, FS Loox 720, Nokia N90 (416*352 lcds). If possible, could you please check one thing. When you push the stylus, how deep does the sensory layer bend? On Clie, Ipaq4700 and any other non-Sony LCD device compared. Thank you!

@@kudryavchik So interestingly they are all very similar (clie old and newer, various PPCs and HPCs), the least was on the Palm Vx which had almost no movement and the most was on either the Psion 5Mx or the LG phenom probably due to the much larger resistive layer...

They were expensive, the E115 was ~$500 when it came out adjusted for inflation its like a top end smartphone today!!! The BE300 is a bit of an oddity as it runs WinCE but with a shell that limits a lot of what it can do, although it did develop quite a following! The HTC Apache is nice, I had a later edition, the keys weren't too bad for thumb typing and it was a good size for a EDC

Glad you enjoyed the video @Karpour, it is a great pocket PC (especially as a 1st PPC!) and the colour versions look great! Ha ha its a great short cut, otherwise its settings, screen, backlight, adjust it then back to programs to open your app!!!!

Excellent! It'll sync with outlook 32bit 2013 or earlier 😃

I do regret not holding out for a blue or red version as they look great. Yeah after I had made the video and was looking for images I saw a yellow version, you say they did a green too 🤔 Perhaps they are like Pokemon and you should catch 'em all 😁 The Cradle allows USB or serial connections so I have been able to sync using WMDC on Win11 via USB 😃

Wow, I never even saw the colored versions for sale. Though, it might be that they did not sell those in Europe. I know Japan had a few colors, did they sell them in those colors in the US as well?

I did a lot of european Maps by exporting them from MS Auto Route Express on Windows.

That's weird, I would have expected Mint to be smoooooooth on that spec laptop 🤔

Virus protection was terrible even with 3rd party apps installed! SE was pretty stable... I'm mainly going to be using this for basic office apps, retro games and syncing palmtops so it'll do nicely for that 😃