I admit the screen on the Nino 300 is less than stellar, but I suspect most of the first Palm-size PCs were just as bad.
(I had an Everex Freestyle - also CE 2.01 - whose display was actually a little worse. Casio always seemed to put out better-quality devices in those days.
) I still like my Nino 300 - in addition to installing .NET CF 1.0 SP3 on it
(a bit of a tight squeeze in that 8 MB of RAM
), I've actually gotten several non-.NET CF MIPS CE 2.11 and even CE 3.0 apps working on it by hexediting the OS version to 2.01. And I like the smART suite on the Nino, including the smARTcommand voice-activation program, which works quite well.