"Joel Zimba" <jzimba@erols.com> writes: > there are keyboards which snap onto the ipaq btw. Uhm, that sounds quite nice. Do you have any link or product name? Remaining problem is that we then pay for a screen we dont need. That makes for additional size/weight too. At least, we d need a reliable way of disabling the screen completely, as it uses battery. > I don't remember if they act as a sleeve, or require the sleeve, but it > seems like the one I read about had added battery life > as well as adding pcmcia or cf flash (as in another slot and maybe bluetooth > or 802.11 CF + pcmcia is quite essential I think. > I'm still not sure the keyboard is necessary. when I can start hacking with > one... which has been put on hold for a while... > I don't think the scheme I've thought of for entering characters with the > finger or stylus would be that hard to implement... > especially if you mark 8 or 9 places on the screen... actually making the > 12 dots of a phone pad would work nicely as well, so numbers could be > faster. Interesting idea, but I wouldnt like to use that I think. I prefer keyboards, no matter how small they are. I once typed a little bit with the NOkia communicator which has a really small keyboard. ANd it worked out quite well. You cant use touch-typing of course, but with a little practice you end up being quite fast. Still, a device with mini-keyboard, without screen at all would be my perfect system. -- CYa, Mario