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Xircom Rex-3 DS Organizer with Docking Station

Xircom Rex-3 DS Organizer with Docking Station

List Price: $29.99
Your Price: $29.99
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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: No PDA can beat it for usability ...
Review: I will not repeat all the excellent reviews already posted. However, I do give REX five stars because although you cannot enter data directly with the basic REX, you can move up to the REX Pro, if you really need that capability. Otherwise, why bother? The leather wallet that comes with it has a handy packet of business-card size note paper that I use to record any information I need to enter later on my PC. Using a Zip drive at home and at work, I can also easily update and transfer the latest data between work and home, working at either place to update my REX card.

The only missing feature is where to find additional business-card sized note paper to carry in the wallet. I have to use blank business card stock from an office supply outlet as the handiest replacement. Hopefully, I will find a supplier for the paper one of these and may be the manufacturer (or Amazon.com) will oblige.

For me, the ultimate benefit is size as well as function. I used to carry a Week-At-A-Glance mini-organizer (paper) in my pants pocket. And last year, I started using a Franklin Planner (paper). Now, I carry REX and will never have to replace an address book ever again! Plus, it holds so much more than the mini-organizer and most everything I really need from the Franklin Planner. Bliss!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Great - especially with Excite
Review: I'm really pleased with this cute little product - and now you can synchronize with Excite it is even better. I can fill out meetings and notes and addresses at work, using Excite, and then they will be automatically put in my Rex when I get home. I lost my previous address book but because all my files are at home and on Excite I finally feel that my data is safe. The only problem is that some of the Rex's fields are too short for a long e-mail address.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Most useable PDA on the market today.
Review: I've been using this REX for over 18 months. I no longer carry those small little slips of paper with phone numbers and reminders. The small size guarantees that all those phone numbers are always in my pocket and always organized. The extremely low price is your best loss protection. Since all the data is in your computer you are ultimately backed up. I remember this sales exec in London who missed a meeting cause he spent the whole day looking for his expensive PDA. That would never happen with my REX. Hundreds of uses besides just address and phone number. How about loading products and prices. The oraganizer software is great. Caution: I had some problem connecting to my ThinkPad; but everything else gets top ratings.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Exellent product
Review: It is by far the best product I have pruchase the last two years. It works great with Outlook and I can track all my 1'000 Access-Business adresses all the time with me. For me I have purchase 2 extra sets just as reserve. For my business I need 20 - 50 more of these (I will give this to my best customers with all the product data-s in it) Does any body know where I could get more of Rex-3 with IS ? (In December I was desperately seeking the Rex-3 version in LA, nobody seems to sell this exellent tool any more.)

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Good tool, good company, great price!
Review: It's definately useful-- in fact, if you find it as handy as I have you'll have to stock up on those little batterieis which, unfortunately, it does go through a good number of. The display is super easy to read! And the company, though under new management is quite helpful-- my LCD screen got cracked and when I called in they let me pay half price for a new one and shipped it right out. And this price just can't be beat! Plus you get the docking station-- The computer interfacing is easy! If you want a portable computer buy a laptop-- if you want a great, handy, affordable PDA that you're not constantly worrying about buy the REX.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: REX does 95% of what any organizer should do.
Review: REX and its included Starfish organization software is a flexible and easy-to-use organizer. Only the requirement that all input be via computer to REX prevents me from giving it five stars. I use Schedule+ as my base organizer software and find that importing its data to the REX version of Starfish's TruSync software is simple and painless, as is the synchronizing download to REX. The current price of $50 for the REX, its docking station, and its software CD is an amazing bargain. The ability to load any text including whole stories and books (in aproximately 200K chunks)into the Memo section is a plus for me, as is the ability to use REX as a stand-alone alarm clock. I get around the update-from-computer-only restriction by keeping notes on the pad carried in the included leather case until I return to the office and enter them into Schedule+. I would recommend REX to anyone who already uses Schedule+, Sidekick, Outlook, or any other PC organizer software as a simple way to take your calendar, contact book, todo lists, and other notes and references with you in the smallest possible package!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The first electronic organizer to challenge my Day-Timer!
Review: The Palms and other electronic organizers never impressed me--too hard to input data, too expensive, not quite small enough. My trusty Day-Timer was smaller, more convenient, and cheaper. But the Rex changed all that. It's easy to use--the data goes into my laptop Outlook application, without any of those clunky styli or miniature keyboards. Synchronization takes literally a few seconds. (Note: if you use a laptop, you don't need the optional cradle). The batteries last about 6 months. And the thing is so small that I can slip it into a shirt or jacket pocket. This is technology I can use!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Portability and less to carry
Review: This gadget is great. I was able to remove about an inch of paper from my day timer and a pound from my back. All the information I need like, my bank account number , my grocery list, websites I want to visit, all my friends email addresses, phone numbers and all those appointments I kept on scraps of paper. I now keep this in the same little wallet that I keep my business cards and spare change.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great Product!
Review: This is a great product. As a paragon of disorganization I was lost until I found this little device. I am not the type to carry around a clunky PDA or a daytimer, and with this I do not need to! This baby fits in my wallet and I always have the numbers or names I need. I love it!

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Okay but
Review: This is a very handy organizer. However, an alternative should have been provided so that data can be entered directly to the REX without the need for a PC.


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