I first saw the Swissphone RE629 pager while attending a conference a couple years ago. I was initially attracted to the RE629’s LCD display and its compact size—its dimensions are smaller than a credit card. Compared to your average cell phone the RE629 will compete for less space on your belt—a welcome change from other radio pagers on the market today. But some of the best benefits of the RE629 lie within the pager.

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These pagers use a profile system that will allow you to customize up to 50 different profiles on a single device. This allows you to design and set up the equivalent of 50 different pagers all within one single device, providing a solution for even the most complex schedule. The RE629 is equipped with an LCD display that provides quick verification of what profile and alert style you currently have selected. This screen is also backlit which allows you to make adjustments to the pager’s settings in low-light environments.

Programmable functions allow you to select the options that will be available. This helps reduce the number of missed alerts and the unnecessary confusion associated with having too many options. The RE629 provides impressive battery life from a single standard rechargeable AA battery; nearly 7 full days can pass before you see a low-battery indicator on the LCD screen. Longer battery life is a welcome change when it comes to audio pagers. If you’re in a pinch, a standard (non-rechargeable) AA battery can be used to prevent you from missing an important alert.

[Native Advertisement] All these features could sell the average user on the product. Additional benefits for the RE629 come when you begin to use the Swissphone PSW629 software to program the pager.

This software partners with the Professional Charger base sold by Swissphone allowing you to connect to your personal computer’s serial port. At first glance the graphical user interface seems simple; however, it’s quite sophisticated.

You can program nearly every feature of this pager. Simply click on the green check mark or the red X next to each option to customize the menu. The PSW629 software also allows you to customize the frequency and pattern of the audible alerts. This means you can customize the alert to a tone/pattern that’s familiar to help with easily identifying the type of alert being sent by the communication center. This same feature of the PSW629 software allows you to set the pattern for the vibration alert, meaning you can determine what type of alert is coming through the pager even in vibrate mode. Although the ability to adjust these settings is helpful, it wouldn’t be practical without the ability to test the alert.

The PSW620 programming software allows the user to do just that. Under the services feature you’re able to test these alerts when the pager is docked in the charger base. To top it off, all of these benefits are wrapped together in an extremely durable case. Many of our firefighters use these pagers 24 hours a day. Thus they must be durable and reliable. I have deployed several of these units to our most active employees.

The only issues have been cosmetic issues and are common in all pagers. Although the RE629 is a great product, it’s lacking one item that I’ve become accustomed to during my pager-carrying years: an external volume-control knob. In order to adjust the volume of the audio transmitted over the speaker, you must navigate the LCD display menu to get to the volume setting. You can change the order of the menu through the programming software, which does help relieve this problem.