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Microsoft unveils new UI prototype - Windows 8?
JavaJones:
Wow, do you actually use that folding keyboard? That looks really interesting!
- Oshyan
app103:
Yes, I do and it's pretty good. You can actually plug the keyboard in so you can run your PDA without draining its battery and actually charge it while you are typing. It's a full sized laptop style keyboard and the keys are actually larger than the ones on the keyboard of my desktop computer.
Targus made keyboards like that for a lot of handheld devices, and I thought they would end up making one for the iPhone too, but for whatever reason they never did and seemed to stop making keyboards of that type right about the time the first iPhones hit the market.
JavaJones:
Well damn, so they're no longer available?
- Oshyan
40hz:
Well damn, so they're no longer available?
- Oshyan
-JavaJones (June 06, 2011, 12:08 PM)
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Some still are. Check Amazon.
Problem with the Targus Stowaway fold-ups was that they were device specific. AFAIK they only did them for the Palm, Handspring, and Clie.
I had one for my Sony Clie until that died. I ended up giving my keyboard to a friend who had one that still worked.
I really miss my Clie. It was a simple and reliable device that didn't try to do too much. But what it did do, it did brilliantly. I wrote the entire first draft of a book on that little bugger. Too bad Sony scrapped it's PDAs and went completely over to smartphones. :)
superboyac:
Well damn, so they're no longer available?
- Oshyan
-JavaJones (June 06, 2011, 12:08 PM)
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Some still are. Check Amazon.
Problem with the Targus Stowaway fold-ups was that they were device specific. AFAIK they only did them for the Palm, Handspring, and Clie.
I had one for my Sony Clie until that died. I ended up giving my keyboard to a friend who had one that still worked.
I really miss my Clie. It was a simple and reliable device that didn't try to do too much. But what it did do, it did brilliantly. I wrote the first draft of entire book on that little bugger. Too bad Sony scrapped it's PDAs and went completely over to smartphones. :)
-40hz (June 06, 2011, 12:48 PM)
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Sounds like a typical Sony story to me. That's soooo Sony. They tease you with amazing innovations and hardware, yet they never seem to be able to strike that perfect balance in their technology. There's always something missing. And nobody makes perfect devices, but the "something missing" for Sony always seems to be a backbreaker that makes. Whenever I get Sony things, i quickly find myself saying, "If it could only do [whatever] it would PERFECT!" And then I try to look for an alternative...
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