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Micro PDA manufactured by Xircom
The Xircom Rex 6000 is an ultra-compact and lightweight PDA, about the size of a credit card. It is a full-function organizer that is small enough to fit comfortably in your pocket, and the 2 MB memory is powerful enough to keep up with your busy schedule by organizing all your essential information.
The REX 6000 hardware is brilliant, neatly solving all of my complaints about the 5000. The screen is sharp and clear and the touch screen solves the main user interface problem of the 5000: trying to do too much with too few buttons. My only complaint about the REX 6000 hardware is that the new screen asks more of the processor than it can comfortably deliver, and so the device seems slower than the 5000, some operations (like drawing the world map for the time view) take several seconds. The REX 5000's much more primitive display is almost instantaneous and curiously some features are more flexible than with the newer 6000.
The 6000's "applications" extend the set that run on the 5000, most are similar and in general a bit more intuitively laid out, and make good use of the touch screen for navigation. The built-in applications have "hot buttons" along the bottom edge of the screen which makes them much more accessible one from another than with the 5000's somewhat clumsy six button navigation system.
The quick touch-screen navigation makes the Rex 6000 simple and easy to use. The Rex 6000 does not support handwriting recognition and to enter data, a pop-up keyboard is used. The standard Rex 6000 has an American keyboard layout, although third-party software allows for other keyboard layouts. The pre-installed software for the Rex consists of the following: - Calendar
- Address book
- Todo list
- Notebook
- World clock
- Calculator
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