10-29-2005, 07:00 AM
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Developer & Designer, News Editor Emeritus
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Cassiopeia DT-5200: Industrial Love
Well, this seems like a nice industrial device. Casio's newest kid in the rugged handheld market is the DT-5200, which is able to survive temperature conditions of -10�C to 50�C, and drops of up to 1.2m. The device has a 3.7" VGA screen, 802.11b/g Wi-Fi, a 1-megapixel camera, Bluetooth, an awesome 20-hour battery life, and Windows CE 5.0. More pictures at Akihabara News.
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10-29-2005, 10:00 AM
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Pontificator
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Not that I'm likely to get stung with another Casio experience... but this big boy is rather interesting. Especially so is the picture of the device back with the phrase: "1.0 MEGA PIXEL CCD." Either that's a mis-print - unlikely on a production casing - or it's the first PPC digicam not using a crappy CMOS receptor chip. Cool. CCD chips are rather more power hungry, but they've got a killer battery in this one. And a phone pad? Is it a phone as well, or are the alphanumeric buttons a gag?
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10-29-2005, 03:23 PM
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Sage
Join Date: Aug 2004
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Forget rugged. Even as a regular PPC, those are pretty good specs 
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10-29-2005, 04:36 PM
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Quote:
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Originally Posted by DaleReeck
Forget rugged. Even as a regular PPC, those are pretty good specs |
Not Windows Mobile though - so not a true PPC.
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11-01-2005, 11:59 PM
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[quote="Duncan"]
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Originally Posted by DaleReeck
Not Windows Mobile though - so not a true PPC.
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Well, It does say Win CE 5. It maybe different but could be possible to run many PPC apps on top of it's current OS.
Gerard. I think the buttons are for quick text entry and are an addition to hide the big honking battery.
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