Casio Cassiopeia

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Casio Cassiopeia is a series of handheld PCs from Casio .

The Casio company began to enter the slowly growing PDA market at a very early stage and initially developed small pocket computers with keyboards and greyscale displays.

Product group: Handheld PC

Cassiopeia A-10 and A-11

Cassiopeia A-20

  • Operating system: Microsoft Windows CE 2.0 Handheld PC edition
  • Dimensions: 185 mm × 94 mm × 24.5 mm
  • Mass: 430 g
  • CPU: Hitachi SH3 @ 80 MHz
  • Memory: 8 MB RAM and 8 MB ROM
  • Display: FSTN LCD, 640 × 240 pixels, 4 gray levels
  • Interfaces: serial and IrDA (ver. 1.0)
  • Expansion slots: CompactFlash Type I and PCMCIA Type II
  • Battery: 2 × AA, up to 25 hours of running time; Additionally CR2032 as a fuse
  • Input: keyboard and touch screen
  • Output: loudspeaker

It quickly became apparent that the devices should get smaller. This is how the PDAs in this series came about . (It should be noted that the Japanese models differ in type designation and appearance. E-5x and E-5xx are the Japanese versions, and these are blue instead of silver).

Product group: Palm-size PC

Cassiopeia E-10

  • Operating system: Microsoft Windows CE 2.01 Palm-size PC edition
  • Dimensions: 80 mm × 120 mm × 20 mm
  • Mass: 184 g
  • CPU: NEC VR4111 MIPS @ 69 MHz
  • Memory: 4 MB RAM and 8 MB ROM
  • Display: FSTN LCD, 240 × 320 pixels, 4 gray levels
  • Interfaces: serial and IrDA (ver. 1.0)
  • Expansion slots: CompactFlash Type I and II
  • Battery 2 × AAA, up to 25 hours running time; Additionally CR2016 as a fuse
  • Input: touch screen, microphone, 4 freely assignable buttons and a 3-way button
  • Output: loudspeaker and stereo 3.5 mm jack

Cassiopeia E-11

  • Operating system: Microsoft Windows CE 2.01 Palm-size PC edition
  • Dimensions: 80 mm × 120 mm × 20 mm
  • Mass: 184 g
  • CPU: NEC VR4111 MIPS @ 69 MHz
  • Memory: 8 MB RAM and 8 MB ROM
  • Display: FSTN LCD, 240 × 320 pixels, 4 gray levels
  • Interfaces: serial and IrDA (ver. 1.0)
  • Expansion slots: CompactFlash Type I and II
  • Battery 2 × AAA, up to 25 hours running time; Additionally CR2016 as a fuse
  • Input: touch screen, microphone, 4 freely assignable buttons and a 3-way button
  • Output: loudspeaker and stereo 3.5 mm jack

Cassiopeia E-15

The Cassiopeia E-15 was the last grayscale model that Casio brought out. It appeared around the same time as the E-105, and the devices looked very similar. The colored series was launched together with the E-15.

  • Operating system: Microsoft Windows CE 2.11 Palm-size PC edition
  • Dimensions: 127 mm × 80 mm × 15.2 mm
  • Mass: 190 g
  • CPU: NEC VR4111 MIPS @ 69 MHz
  • Memory: 16 MB RAM and 16 MB ROM
  • Display: FSTN LCD, 240 × 320 pixels, 16 gray levels
  • Interfaces: serial and IrDA (ver. 1.0)
  • Expansion slots: CompactFlash Type I and II
  • Battery 2 × AAA rechargeable batteries, up to 25 hours running time; Additionally CR2032 as a fuse
  • Input: touch screen, microphone, 3 freely assignable buttons, a 3-way button, record button and a control pad.
  • Output: loudspeaker and stereo 3.5 mm jack

Cassiopeia E-100

Externally, the models of the E-1xx series can hardly be distinguished.

  • Operating system: Microsoft Windows CE 2.11 Palm-size PC edition
  • Dimensions: 81.2 mm × 132 mm × 20.1 mm
  • Mass: 255 g
  • CPU: NEC VR4121 MIPS @ 131 MHz
  • Memory: 16 MB RAM and 16 MB ROM
  • Display: HAST LCD, 240 × 320 pixels, 65536 colors
  • Interfaces: serial and IrDA (ver. 1.0)
  • Expansion slots: CompactFlash Type I and II
  • Battery: Li-Ion battery, up to 6 hours of running time; Additionally CR2032 as a fuse
  • Input: touch screen, microphone, 3 freely assignable buttons, a 3-way button, record button and a control pad.
  • Output: loudspeaker and stereo 3.5 mm jack

Cassiopeia E-105

  • Operating system: Microsoft Windows CE 2.11 Palm-size PC edition
  • Dimensions: 81.2 mm × 132 mm × 20.1 mm
  • Mass: 255 g
  • CPU: NEC VR4121 MIPS @ 131 MHz
  • Memory: 32 MB RAM and 16 MB ROM
  • Display: HAST LCD, 240 × 320 pixels, 65536 colors
  • Interfaces: serial and IrDA (ver. 1.0)
  • Expansion slots: CompactFlash Type I and II
  • Battery: Li-Ion battery, up to 6 hours of running time; Additionally CR2032 as a fuse
  • Input: touch screen, microphone, 3 freely assignable buttons, a 3-way button, record button and a control pad.
  • Output: loudspeaker and stereo 3.5 mm jack

Product group: PocketPC

Cassiopeia E-115

Cassiopeia E-115G
  • Operating system: Microsoft Windows CE 3.0 PocketPC edition
  • Dimensions: 81.2 mm × 132 mm × 20.1 mm
  • Mass: 256 g
  • CPU: NEC VR4121 MIPS @ 131 MHz
  • Memory: 32 MB RAM and 16 MB ROM
  • Display: HAST LCD, 240 × 320 pixels, 65536 colors
  • Interfaces: serial and IrDA (ver. 1.2)
  • Expansion slots: CompactFlash Type I and II
  • Battery: Li-Ion battery, up to 6 hours of running time; Additionally CR2032 as a fuse
  • Input: touch screen, microphone, 3 freely assignable buttons, a 3-way button, record button and a control pad.
  • Output: loudspeaker and stereo 3.5 mm jack

Cassiopeia E-125

Cassiopeia E-125
  • Operating system: Microsoft Windows CE 3.0 PocketPC edition
  • Dimensions: 81.2 mm × 132 mm × 20.1 mm
  • Mass: 256 g
  • CPU: NEC VR4122 MIPS @ 150 MHz
  • Memory: 32 MB RAM and 16 MB ROM
  • Display: HAST LCD, 240 × 320 pixels, 65536 colors
  • Interfaces: Serial / USB and IrDA (ver. 1.2)
  • Expansion slots: CompactFlash Type I and II
  • Battery: Li-Ion battery, up to 6 hours of running time; additionally CR2032 as a fuse
  • Input: touch screen, microphone, 3 freely assignable buttons, a 3-way button, record button and a control pad.
  • Output: loudspeaker and stereo 3.5 mm jack

Cassiopeia E-200

  • Operating system: Microsoft PocketPC 2002
  • Dimensions: 82 mm × 130 mm × 17.5 mm
  • Mass 190 g
  • CPU: Intel StrongARM 1110 @ 206 MHz
  • Memory: 64 MB RAM and 32 MB ROM
  • Display: TFT, 240 × 320 pixels, 65536 colors
  • Interfaces: Serial / USB and IrDA (ver. 1.2)
  • Expansion slots: SD card (MultiMediaCard) and CompactFlash Type I and II as well as PCMCIA via an expansion module
  • Battery: Li-Ion battery, up to 12 hours running time, additional CR2032 as backup
  • Input: touch screen, microphone, 3 freely assignable buttons, a 3-way button, record button and a control pad.
  • Output: loudspeaker and stereo 3.5 mm jack

Successor models of the Cassiopeia E-200

Due to the currently difficult PDA market situation, Casio has decided not to bring a successor to the Cassiopeia E-200 to the European end customer market, but only to the Japanese market at the moment. A current example of this is the Cassiopeia E-3000 Pocket PC 2002 or the DT-10 with Windows Mobile 2003, which, however, were designed exclusively for the Japanese market.

Other models

  • A-23: like A-20 but without background lighting and sound, but as a school package with additional math programs such as Maple and others.
  • BE-300: inexpensive Cassiopeia model, 166Mhz MIPS with Windows CE 3.0 and CompactFlash, but only 16 MB RAM and only 32,768 colors
  • E-55: Japanese version of the E-15
  • E-5xx: Japanese versions of the E-1xx models, externally recognizable by a blue housing.
  • EM-500G: slimmer version of the E-125 (e.g. without CompactFlash - instead with MultimediaCard slot and only 16 MB RAM)
  • EM-505: slimmer version of the E-125 (e.g. without CompactFlash - probably also SD slot)
  • E-800: modified industrial version of the E-125
  • SX-45: Mobile phone developed in cooperation with Siemens based on the E-125 (100% compatible), but which was only built for promotional purposes. A Siemens cell phone was simply attached to the back. Outwardly, this special model differs from an E-125 through its short antenna at the top left and through the enormous depth of the housing through the attached Siemens cell phone.

Web links

Commons : Casio Cassiopeia  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.golem.de/0106/14544.html