Xircom REX 5000

Advantages Small powerfull cheap
Disadvantages No internet access, becuase of size no keyboard

...The Rex 5000 pro is a credit card sized PDA which comes with a docking station (I belive earlier models were available without) and a hard and soft carrying wallet. The Rex has a Calandar, Contacts list, Memo pad, TODO list, time and world time, all server their purpose well and the more you use the unit the more intuitive it becomes, i.e. to create a new appointment in the calandar requires the minimum key presses as it learns your types of appointments and allows you to link them with existing Contacts, same with the TODO list linking a task to call someone with that contact. The Rex is designed to be used away from the PC and then when available to syncronise with the PC, and comes with the ability to sync with all major packages (outlook etc) and also contains its own brand if you are not currently using a known package (has... Read review

Advantages Small
Disadvantages Limited

...to read the 'Franklin' embossing under the new Xircom label, something that will undoubtedly change once existing stocks are supplemented with a new production run. The original version had 64KB (yes, that's KB, not MB) of memory and no facilities for editing anything; you simply downloaded your data from a PC, and used the Rex to read that data while on the move. The Xircom Rex Pro is a little more clever, though; it has 512KB of memory, for a start, which will hold 6,000 contacts. It also has a 'modify' button, with which users can alter entries, add new text and so on, and all amendments are synchronised when the Rex is connected to a PC. This connection process is effected in one of two ways. The user can either plug the Rex Pro into a notebook's PC Card slot, or use the supplied, battery-powered docking station to connect it to the serial... Read review