Size matters for users of the new credit-card-sized Rex 6000 MicroPDA.
It is compact, lightweight and fits easily into a wallet or shirt pocket, just like the advertising says. Long-time Palm users will notice the Rex 6000, unlike Palm V, does not sag inside a shirt or coat pocket.
These observations might be a touch too cosmetic and skin-deep for a technology review, but that is exactly what Xircom is trying to sell.
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Unlike a Palm or a Visor, you can synchronise your schedule from a notebook PC to the Rex 6000 without a cradle connection. You simply insert the Xircom product through the notebook's PC card slot because the MicroPDA has the dimensions of a standard Type II PC card, which is 8.57 centimetres long, 5.4 cm high and five millimetres thick.
However, the Rex 6000's size makes it less of a tech toy and more the handy, Swiss Army knife of PDAs.
It is basic. There are no modules that will turn it into an MP3 player or camera. It does not have a colour screen either.