| |  | Electronics : PalmOne Portable Keyboard for Palm m100/m105, III Series, and VII Series Handhelds |  | | | | | | | | | |
Binding: Electronics
Brand: Palm
EAN: 0662705900223
Keyboard Description: QWERTY
Label: Palm
Manufacturer: Palm
Model: P10713U
Platform: Palm OS
Publisher: Palm
Size: III, VII and m100 Series
Studio: Palm
Variation Description: III, VII and m100 Series
Features:- Collapsible keyboard for typing on the go
- Folds down small enough to fit into a pocket or purse
- 9 programmable quick keys
- No battery required
- Compatible with Palm m100/m105, Palm III series, and Palm VII series handhelds
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Get a full-size keyboard in a pocket-size package. Carry the Palm Portable Keyboard to take notes at your next meeting or write reports on an airplane. Leave your laptop behind. This small, lightweight, portable keyboard is perfect for sending and responding to e-mail, composing memos or taking notes when you're away from your desk. Travel light. Weighing in at just 8 ounces, this compact keyboard folds into its own case that's just slightly bigger than your handheld. Take a shortcut. Up to nine user-programmable keys let you instantly access the applications and programs you use most. Start right away. Just install the Palm Portable Keyboard software, set your Palm handheld in the custom docking cradle, and start typing. Forget about batteries. The keyboard uses minimal power from your Palm handheld - no additional batteries required.
Amazon.com Review:
It's always a wonderful feeling when gadgets work seamlessly and live upto their plug-and-play promise. The Palm portable keyboard is such a gadget.It's possibly the best hardware add-on for Palm devices currently on themarket--it installs easily and helps you increase your Palm productivity.
Installation of the Keyboard application onto the Palm handheld is easilyaccomplished during a typical HotSync. (To prepare the app for HotSync, simplyadd it to the Install Tool on Windows, or the Install Handheld Files in the MacHotSync Manager.)
Once the app was installed, we were ready for testing at a meeting. We saunteredin and unfolded the keyboard in a flourish--clicking it open from its foldedposition, laying it flat, sliding the keyboard parts together (it's broken intothirds for folding), and attaching our m100 in a matter of seconds. Theattendees at the meeting were suitably wide eyed and impressed with our JamesBondian device. (This model of the Palm Portable Keyboard also accommodates PalmVII and Palm III series handhelds--even the Palm IIIc. A separate model isavailable for the Palm V.)
But the Palm portable keyboard is more than a flashy toy--it's a productivityjuggernaut that has some of the best keyboard action we've ever experienced. Thekeys are not soft and mushy like other keyboards we've tested for handhelds.Instead, they're a bit on the tight side but with a lot of give. Also, the morewe used the keyboard, the more we found ourselves shying away from tapping thescreen to navigate through a screen or perform actions such as switchingapplications or opening up the Details section of a Memo or Address Bookcontact. With the Palm keyboard, you can do virtually all your work withouttaking your fingers off the keyboard.
The keyboard includes custom buttons for the built-in Palm applications (DateBook, Address, To Do List, and Memo Pad). Several keys have added functions, such as the ability to open up the Appsscreen, scroll through a screen, or turn on the backlight. You can also customize your own shortcuts list of applications loaded onto your Palm handheld. This is done using the Keyboard app, and you can assign the number keys 1 through 9 (but not 0). After making our designations, pressing Cmd-1 immediately took us to our favorite diversion--YahtC--during a lull in our meeting.
All told, we have nothing but praise for the Palm portable keyboard, not justfor the ease of inputting text but also for changing the way we use our Palmhandheld. Since we started using the keyboard, we now often travel without anylaptop, confident that any degree of writing or note taking during meetings canbe handled by our Palm alone. (It should also be noted that we typed this reviewon our m100 while sitting comfortably at our local coffee shop.) If you are aheavy Palm user, the Palm portable keyboard is an essential and very cool tool.--Agen G.N. Schmitz
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