PalmOne Infrared Wireless Keyboard for Palm PDAs

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Manufacturer: PalmOne
Price at amazon.com: $45.99
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Product Features:

• Foldable for easy transport in your pocket, bag or purse!
• Infrared technology -- no need to buy any other accessories, works with the built-in Infrared port on your Palm PDA!
• Compatible with the following Palm Handhelds -
• Palm Tungsten Series Handhelds
• Palm Zire Series Handhelds

Product Description:

Type effortlessly with this foldable, practical keyboard that connects to your handheld wirelessly via infrared!

Average Customer Rating:

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Comment: A minor update to Mr. Miller Rating:
Very good review. About the "On a T3 you'll need to set landscape mode to left-handed orientation because of the position of the IR transmitter." You have the Alt+Del combination it'll rotate the screen in 1/4 increments. So, no changes in the screen configuration.

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Comment: Nice, once you get used to it Rating:
I'm using this with a Clie TH55, and it has been great. I've had two previous keyboards with connectors that have been obsoleted when I've changed PDAs. Because this one is wireless, I shouldn't have to change keyboards next time I change PDAs.

It takes some time to get used to no dedicated number row, but you do get used to it.

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Comment: Great design, but useless for non-english languages Rating:
This keyboard is one of the best designed pieces of hardware I've ever seen. You can see the attention they gave to details, from the lock that becomes the pda support, to the rubber strips that won't let the keyboard and the pda slip. You'll never write as fast as in your desktop, but It's a nice package for the portability you get.

If the hardware is great, I can't say the same about the keyboard driver. If you are writing in a language with a lot of accented letters (portuguese, french, spanish...) the software makes it almost useless for any serious writing. It's so clumsy that to put a simple tilde (~) in a letter you have to push 4 keys at the same time! Great to slow you to death and to give you some RSI. Why you can't just press the accent, and then the letter (as you do in all international keyboards) is beyond my understanding. You'll be able to use it just for some notetaking without accents.

I've bought the wireless version because I have a Clié palmtop. Palm licenses this keyboard from Thinkoutside, the makers of the Stowaway keybards, and their site says that the wireless model is compatible with almost all palm models. Since I plan to go back to a palm sometime soon, I've bought this for compatibility. After reading the README file, everything worked fine. Unfortunately the price for the infrared connection is a more intensive use of the pda battery.

Posted at November 11, 2003 07:28 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)