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The screen has a slightly smaller screen resolution than its 'big brother', the Series 5mx (and has no backlight, no matter what the manual may say, although it does have a special 3M reflective back and is extremely sharp) and supports 16-colour images like the 5mx, but will not accept Compact Flash cards. This means that you only have the Revo's 8MB of internal RAM to store programs and files in. As often said, though, the Revo is not a solution for the power user, as you can't expect to include all the functionality of a larger machine into a smaller one which is also cheaper. This 8MB will, however, store about 4,000 pages of text - more than enough to replace a paper organiser or databank!

By this time, you're probably interested in the software that comes with the Revo. It uses Symbian's EPOC Release 5 32-bit operating system, which is designed for portable computers and is also used in the Series 5mx and Series 7. This is pretty fast and user-friendly, and supports many freeware, shareware and commercial software packages, which are readily available (see Frevo's software list for many freeware downloads). Not all Series 5mx software works, due to the smaller screen resolution, but a lot will either be compatible now or soon.

The Revo's applications, as standard, are (click titles or features to see screenshots) Contacts, a database of contact details (this can also dial a number for you, by reproducing DTMF phone signals through the Revo's small but loud speaker), Agenda, the multi-view time manager, Email, the email and SMS mobile phone message manager, Phone, the mobile phone synchronisation tool, Time, the alarm and world map, Calc, the desk roll and scientific calculator, Jotter, the quick note taker, Data, the database, Word, the word processor, Sheet, the spreadsheet and graph creator, eSetup, the Internet setup wizard and Cascade, the puzzle game. Series 5mx users will notice that Record is missing, as the Revo has no dictaphone functionality, as are Program, Comms, Fax and Sketch the drawing app (a disappointing omission for a touch-screen device). Web, the simple Web browser, and Spell, the spell checker, thesaurus, crossword and anagram solver, can be downloaded from the PsiWin 2.3 CD, although they will take up quite a bit of the RAM. One additional feature on the Revo that other Psion users would probably appreciate is the Today view on the System screen, which displays appointments and to-dos for today, as well as the battery, link and disk space status. Everything works very well, although for some reason I couldn't get Phone to connect to a mobile phone by infrared - this could be a problem with the phone I was using, though.

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Revo screenshots