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Anonymous   08-25-2004 at 10:08:02 PM

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I just bought a new Clie TJ37 last weekend to replace a 3-year-old
Handspring Visor Platinum. The Platinum still works great - as well as
ever - but it's getting nigh impossible to get everything I want to do
inside that 8 MB of RAM.

One thing I love about my Visor is the Targus Stowaway keyboard I have for
it. If I could buy another one for my Clie, I would.

I know there are a few options, although none except Sony's interface
directly with the Clie like my Stowaway did with my Visor. The three that
seem the most worth considering are Sony's keyboard, the Belkin IR keyboard
and the Targus IR Stowaway keyboard. The problem is, the Sony keyboard is
expensive ($150 Cdn) and the Belkin and Targus keyboards, while inexpensive,
don't appear to be as nice as my Stowaway. I like how my Stowaway feels -
it's full keyboard size, not cramped, and although the key travel is short,
it is easy to type fast on it. I can type 120+ wpm so feel is important to
me.

Have any of you used the Stowaway and any of these alternatives I've found?
How do they compare? If you haven't used a Stowaway but can type really
fast, how do you find these keyboards to be? Are there any keyboards I'm
missing that I should be considering?

Jim

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Anonymous   08-29-2004 at 02:35:02 AM
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Jim MacKenzie <jim@dusykbarlow.sk.ca> wrote:
> Are there any keyboards I'm missing that I should be considering?

I am using the Palm Wireless Keyboard (via IR) which to my knowledge
is a Stowaway IR keyboard. I don't know how the 'Targus IR Stowaway
keyboard' you've mentioned compares to this one.

However, the thing unfortunately has no numeric keyrow and you need
two function keys to address either the special keys like dollar sign,
ampersand, slash and so on or the numeric ones usually located on the
upper keyrow.

I really don't know why the numeric keyrow has been cut off. It just
saves about 1.8 cm and the additional size doesn't play any important
role if you put the folded keyboard into a bag. If you have to deal
with numbers a lot, it will be rather uncomfortable; for texts it is
ok, but at one place bottom right they've mixed an arrow key with a
normal one which is generally a bad idea.

The keyboard operates on two AAA cells and while I am using it with my
Palm Tungsten T2 I guess it should work with any IR enabled Palm. The
special driver it needs is provided on CDROM or via download.

This keyboard was the only one available at a reasonable price and
with my non-english language layout. The Stowaway XT with dedicated
universal connector (for Palms) was a lot more expensive.

Regards,

Guido

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