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moves away on the screen to another location where it has to be touched again. I find this “too sure” and

therefore too complicated.

The plug of the A701 is a standard mini USB, which gives several advantages: if we don’t have

its own synchronizing cable on hand, we can use any other mini USB cable to connect our Mio to a PC

and synchronize and/or charge it. Another advantage is that both the AC adapter and the car charger

provided along with the Mio terminate in a mini USB plug allowing us to use them to charge other

devices, such as digital cameras, mp3 players etc. Or, when traveling, it’s enough to carry the charging

and synchronizing set of the Mio and use them for our other machines.

The G500 has its own standard, “PDA-type” plug, with many connecting pins. Its AC adaptor,

however, doesn’t terminate in a “PDA-standard,” yellow-colored plug where one can simply attach his

own PDA’s specific “charging head,” but it ends in a ca. Nokia-sized plug. You also don’t get a “charging

head” to it, but have to connect the USB cable’s head to the AC charger, and plug that in the device!

Horrible solution from E-TEN, used also by the M500 and M600. The USB cable is then just loose and

bothers while charging via the AC adaptor. All this mess makes us decide rather not to use the AC

charger, but the USB cable (to charge from the computer) and the car charger. However, the manual

recommends to charge the G500 every once in a while with the stronger AC adaptor. It also recommends

charging via the USB cable parallel with the AC adaptor. No comment about all these crazy

ideas…Anyways, we can charge the device in several ways.

The USB synchronizing cable from Mio is thicker than the other, giving a massive and strong

impression. The E-TEN is thin, therefore it needs less room to store in our bag or pocket, but one might

think that it could break easier. However, E-TEN has supplied this type of thin cables to its previous

devices as well, and until now, nobody has complained about cable-breakage.

Both devices own a telescopic stylus and they are located at the bottom of the housing on the right

side because of the GPS antenna on the top. I like the one of E-TEN better because it’s easier to get out

from its holding hole, but it’s still stable inside, and doesn’t fall out by accident. It needs a little more

force to lengthen it, but its length is more than enough to work with even in the shorter version. Once it’s

lengthened, it’s longer than a “standard” stylus, and becomes very handy to use. This is also thanks to its

thickness. It’s a little impractical that the stylus is held also by the back cover, so once the battery is taken

out (e.g. for a SIM card change), the stylus also falls out.

To get out the Mio’s stylus is very difficult, but lengthening it is easier. This results in that while the

E-TEN stylus comes out collapsed, the Mio arrives in the open status. It happened that the Mio’s stylus

broke (!) or the two parts fell apart. Somebody also struggled with having the bottom part stuck in the

housing, causing big trouble getting it out. This cannot happen with the E-TEN’s stylus, as it is built very

massively, and is very stable. The Mio stylus, when collapsed, is very short, so you need to lengthen it

first before each use. This is not a big deal, as when you take it out from the device, it’s already open.

As a summery I’d say that the E-TEN stylus needs to be opened only if we want to use it for a longer

period, but for just a couple notes, it’s long enough when it’s not pulled apart, and this is an advantage.

In the stylus competition, my winner is definitely the E-TEN.

3. Screen

The precise, visible sizes:

Mio: 54.5 x 40.5 mm (diameter: 68.5 mm)

E-TEN: 57 x 43 mm (diameter: 71 mm)

So the G500’s screen is a tiny bit bigger than the one of the Mio. Their resolutions, of course, are

the same: QVGA, (240x320), 16 bit (65536) color depth. In order to have a fair competition, I compared

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