Freemax REXA Pro & REXA Smart Review: Feature-Rich Vapes

Design & Build Quality

The REXA Pro and REXA Smart are packed with huge touch screen displays and relatively large-capacity batteries, so it should come as no surprise that they’re larger, heavier, and chunkier than your average plain Jane pod vape. At 83g for the REXA Pro and 121g for the REXA Smart, these devices have some heft to them.

The REXA Pro has a ‘standard’ pod vape form factor. It’s taller than it is wide, with a massive 2.51-inch HD touchscreen on the front. It’s 121mm tall, 27.5mm wide, and 18mm thick, so along with the weight, it feels substantial in the hand. Compared to the XROS 5 or the Caliburn G4, the REXA Pro is noticeably larger and heavier, but certainly feels more solid.

The REXA Smart adopts a square shape that has become popular with pod vapes. It’s 89.2mm tall, around 53mm wide, and 21mm thick. It’s still a bulky and heavy little pod vape, but it’s much shorter and more compact than the REXA Pro. It too has a massive 2.01-inch touchscreen display on the front, and I like it more than the one on the REXA Pro because the extra width makes it much more usable.

Aside from the difference in shape, the REXA Pro and REXA Smart are essentially the same device. They both have a clicky and responsive power button, which can be used for button-firing, as well as a sturdy airflow control slider which has good resistance to it. I’ve had it change position in my pocket sometimes, but it’s overall pretty good. Additionally, to prevent accidental touches, each device has a switch to toggle the touch screen control on or off.

An interesting feature of the REXA Pro and REXA Smart is the speaker grille on the back of the devices. It’s there to, you guessed it, play sounds, such as when vaping. But you can also use it to play music from another device, which I’ll get into in more depth in the features section of this review.

Branding is minimal, with a small Freemax logo on the front of each device and the device’s name on the back.

Pods

The REXA Pro and REXA Smart each come with two pods: 0.8Ω and 0.6Ω. The pods included in the box have a capacity of 2ml, which is a bit small by 2025 standards. I’d like to see 3ml capacity pods released in the future.

The 0.8Ω pod is single mesh and features a rubber bung that plugs the fill port on the side of the pod.

The 0.6Ω pod is one of Freemax’s “Duomax” dual-mesh pods. This pod also fills through a port on the side, but features a sliding fill port cover that you slide down to open and up to close. What’s nice about this pod is that it can’t be opened while inserted in the device, so there’s no risk of accidents happening in your pocket.

Both pods are a breeze to fill, but I really like the convenience of the slide-to-open pod. It’s as simple as sliding it down, filling, and sliding it back up again to close the port—no fiddling around with a tiny rubber bung.

In addition to the included pods, three other resistances are available: 0.4Ω, 1.0Ω, and 1.2Ω, so there’s a nice range of available resistances to suit all types of vaping styles.

Features

The REXA Pro and REXA Smart are two of the most advanced pod vapes out right now. While they’re not the first pod vapes to feature a touch screen (the recently released OXVA XLIM SQ PRO 2 also has one), the responsiveness is excellent. It’s a “smartphone” experience, where a light touch, tap, or swipe is all it takes to perform the action you want to do.

The tall display on the REXA Pro is very narrow. It’s still perfectly functional, but I prefer the large square display on the REXA Smart more. It looks more natural and is more what I think most people are accustomed to when using a touch screen device.

The default blue theme is clean and displays the time, battery percentage, wattage, pod resistance, puff count, and mode. You can change the theme by pressing and holding the screen. There are five theme options for the REXA Pro and ten theme options for the REXA Smart.

Both devices can fire from 5-30W, and feature POWER and SMART modes. Power mode allows the wattage to be set to anywhere in the 5-30W output range. SMART mode limits the wattage according to the pod resistance. The wattage can be adjusted by tapping the display three times, then using the screen or physical button to adjust the wattage.

Circling back to the speaker that I mentioned in the design section, yes, both the REXA Pro and REXA Smart can play sounds! These activate when you take a draw, and the sound can be changed in the settings. I found the sounds a little annoying, so thankfully it can be turned off completely by swiping up on the REXA Pro or from the right on the REXA Smart, and dragging the volume slider all the way down. The REXA Pro also has a sound toggle that can be toggled off instead.

In addition to playing sounds when you vape, you can also Bluetooth music from your smartphone to play through the REXA Smart and REXA Pro. The speaker on the devices isn’t very good, though. Loud, yes, but the quality could be better. In any case, I found this feature to be more of a gimmick than anything, and other than testing it out, I never used it, and I doubt most people will.

Similar to a smartphone, swiping down from the top of the display brings up the menu options. You can change the mode, theme, music menu, and more.

Hidden in this menu, the REXA Smart also has a few more bonus apps that the REXA Pro does not, such as a calculator, calendar, alarm clock, and a timer. But like the sounds and music feature, I never used these, and I’m not sure who would. The majority of people have smartphones, and those who don’t are probably not going to pick up the REXA Smart over a simpler vape.

Battery Life & Charging

A vape with a large touchscreen needs a high-capacity battery. The REXA Smart has a 1600mAh cell, while the REXA Pro has a 1300mAh cell. Both do a good job of keeping these vapes going for multiple days, even with the massive displays.

Throughout my time testing these two vapes, I was constantly swapping the pods between them to test how each device did with each pod. With that said, battery life was pretty good, even with me playing around with the screens and testing out all of the different features.

The REXA Smart lasted the longest, averaging about three days of use per charge. The REXA Pro, with its smaller capacity battery, still lasted for over two days on average, which is still quite good.

I would imagine that by turning down the screen brightness in the settings and not fiddling around too much with the options, the average vaper could achieve 4-5 days of use with these devices.

Both of these guys support Type-C 2A charging, and a cable is included in the box. Plugged into a wall charger, the REXA Pro takes 45 minutes to charge, while the REXA Smart takes 55 minutes. Both devices can be vaped while they charge. 

Performance

The pods that come with the REXA Pro and REXA Smart give a lot of options for how you can vape with these devices.

The 0.6Ω dual mesh pod gave me great results when used for restricted-direct-lung vaping. In SMART mode, it’s restricted to 23W, and that feels about right for the pod. It’s enough power to get a good RDL experience, but it can always be increased by putting the devices in Power mode, if you like.

For MTL, the 0.8Ω pod delivers good results. The airflow has to be closed up, at least a little, for a decent MTL, and the draw can be dialed in a surprising amount just by playing around with the slider. This pod maxes out at 15W in SMART mode, but again, it’s more than enough power for a good MTL vape.

I tested both pods with freebase and nic salt ejuices and, not surprisingly, the 0.8Ω pod seems better for nic salts, while the 0.6Ω pod proved to be better for freebase ejuices. However, neither pod is too high or too low of a resistance to be used with either, so there’s no wrong way to use the included pods. If you find you like nic salts with the 0.6Ω pod, that’s perfectly fine. Similarly, if you like freebase ejuices with the 0.8Ω pod, there’s no problem with that either!

The flavor from these pods is impressive, and that’s not surprising, seeing as they are from Freemax, a company known for its incredible sub-ohm tank coils. Coil life is also good, and I’ve been using the same pods for over two weeks now.

I’ve noticed a bit of a flavor drop in the single coil 0.8Ω pod, but nothing too drastic. The 0.6Ω pod is still performing as new, though, with no change in flavor at all.

Verdict

The REXA Pro and REXA Smart are two of the most advanced and feature-filled pod vapes on the market. While I personally think that many of the features are superfluous and only useful to check out and say, “Hey, that’s neat,” I have to hand it to Freemax for creating such feature-rich vapes.

Aside from the myriad of settings and apps, the performance of these devices is A1. The pods are very, very good, making it worth it to pick up the REXA Pro and REXA Smart just for the performance alone. The touch screens are nice too, even if you don’t use all of the extras. I liked being able to change the themes on the fly, and the wattage adjustment just by tapping the screen is pretty nifty as well.

Whether you’re a RDL vaper or a MTL vaper, the REXA Pro and REXA Smart are suited for the task. But if price is a consideration and you’re not exactly sold on the touch screen, one of the other REXA series devices is probably a better pick.

While I don’t have any information on what they’ll cost, I can imagine they’ll be pretty expensive, probably in the $30-50 price range. For that price, I would only consider these devices if you like the touch screen and all the features that it provides.