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Contents Upgrades Cassiopeia can be upgraded with the following perks: Column 0 Kinetic Damage This weapon causes kinetic damage. Column 1 Randomly Selected Perk This could be one of six randomly selected perks. SteadyHand IS Stable sight. Optimized for excellent recoil control. QuickDraw IS Agile sight. Lightning-fast handling. SureShot IS Snapshot sight.
Excellent handling. Superb target acquisition. Red Dot-OES Agile sight. For smooth engagement in close quarters. Red Dot-ORS Accurized sight.
For precise fire. Red Dot-OAS Snapshot sight. Enhanced target acquisition. Randomly Selected Perk This could be one of two randomly selected perks.
Red Dot-ORS1 Precision sight. Highest zoom in class. Enhanced range. Red Dot-ORES Flexible sight. Enhances handling, range, and recoil control. Randomly Selected Perk This could be one of two randomly selected perks.
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Focus Lens FLS2 Agile scope. Light and snappy. Ranged Lens RLS3 Mid-range scope.
Good effective range and recoil control. Heavy and slow.
Column 2 Randomly Selected Perk This could be one of fourteen randomly selected perks. Cascade Melee kills automatically reload a portion of this weapon's magazine. Counterbalance This weapon has increased stability.
Focused Fire When zoomed, this weapon fires slower, but causes additional damage. Hip Fire This weapon has bonus accuracy while firing from the hip.
Glass Half Full The bottom half of each magazine causes additional damage. Grenadier Kills with this weapon reduce the cooldown of your grenade.
Unflinching It's easier to aim under fire using this weapon. Feeding Frenzy Kills with this weapon increase reload speed for a short time.
Life Support Recovering from near death grants additional ammo and briefly increases reload speed. Rangefinder Aiming this weapon increases its effective range. Reactive Reload Reloading this weapon after a kill grants a damage bonus for a short time. Spray and Play Increases the reload speed of this weapon when its mag is empty. Persistence This weapon grows more accurate the longer it is fired.
Take a Knee Crouching grants improved accuracy and stability, as well as reduced aim time and flinch-under-fire.
With its moderately priced Cassiopeia Pocket Manager BE-300 handheld, Casio delivers the most in-demand features, including a bright color screen and MP3 playback. Though it's built on Windows CE 3.0, an OS notorious for being difficult to use, Casio equips this PDA with its own, more user-friendly interface. However, the BE-300 has some limitations that make it hard to recommend over similarly priced handhelds from Palm and Handspring-even if they don't have built-in MP3 playback. With its moderately priced Cassiopeia Pocket Manager BE-300 handheld, Casio delivers the most in-demand features, including a bright color screen and MP3 playback. Though it's built on Windows CE 3.0, an OS notorious for being difficult to use, Casio equips this PDA with its own, more user-friendly interface.
However, the BE-300 has some limitations that make it hard to recommend over similarly priced handhelds from Palm and Handspring-even if they don't have built-in MP3 playback. A welcoming start At 5.6 ounces, the BE-300 is about the same weight and size as the Palm IIIc.
The Casio PDA's interface isn't as snazzy as that of Pocket PC 2002, but we liked how simple and straightforward it is. Rather than icons, you get a list of applications showing on the bright, 15-bit color screen, which displays an impressive 32,768 colors.
Double-tap on an application with the stylus, and it launches relatively swiftly, thanks to the handheld's 166MHz processor. As with Palms and Pocket PCs, you can use handwriting recognition or an onscreen virtual keyboard to enter text.
You get the standard suite of PIM applications-calendar, contacts, tasks, notes (including a sketchpad), and a calculator-plus an Internet browser and an e-mail client. However, these applications' interfaces are inelegant; the contact list is especially cluttered with buttons. And while we're griping, the sound to alert you to upcoming appointments is too quiet to really grab your attention. On a more positive note, the CD-ROM that ships with the BE-300 includes several add-on programs: a file manager, to find files as you would on a Pocket PC; a digital music player-MP3s play back just fine over, which aren't included; a movie player; a photo viewer; and Quick View, which lets you look at files in common formats, such as Word and Excel, but won't let you edit them. We are, however, a little concerned about additional software for this device. Some of the applications written for older Casio devices-the E-100 and E-110, for example-also run on the BE-300, and there's a small but growing library of third-party software for sale. According to Casio, developers need only recompile their existing Windows CE and Pocket PC applications to make them run on the BE-300.
Outlook not included Though many users have Outlook installed on their computers, Casio doesn't package a desktop PIM for sharing data between the BE-300 and your PC. Palm and Handspring devices come with the Palm Desktop PIM for Mac and Windows and a conduit for syncing up to Microsoft Outlook on the PC. The PC Connect synchronization program that comes with the BE-300 will exchange data with only Outlook (Outlook Express won't do).
To sync up, you just drop the BE-300 into the included USB cradle. The BE-300 stores all programs and data in its 16MB of flash ROM and uses the 16MB of RAM only for running programs. Consequently, unlike most PDAs, the BE-300 won't lose your data if the batteries die.
But you'll quickly fill that 16MB of flash memory with basic applications and data, so factor in the cost of a CompactFlash card to take advantage of this PDA's multimedia abilities. There is a CompactFlash Type II slot for adding memory cards, modems, digital cameras, and other devices. Casio claims a four-hour battery life with the display on the lowest brightness setting, which isn't too hot compared to the battery life of the Palm IIIc or the Handspring Visor Prism.