In the message dated: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:53:14 MDT, The pithy ruminations from Mark on <Re: External Keyboard Recommendations> were: => On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Hal Vaughan <hal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: => > => > From what I've seen, including links provided, the USB keyboards don't => > seem to be fold-up and from what I can tell in terms of mass-market => > (which we all know dictates what is made and sold), the suit-and-tie => > crowd tends to go for the latest and that's BT from most viewpoints. => > It doesn't need a wire or dongle. => > => => Correct. There are some "roll-up" keyboards, but those aren't ideal => for the reasons discussed, and I've never seen a hard plastic USB => keyboard that folds up. I've got one, and I love it. Mine is an older model, originally meant for use with Palm Pilots. It has good tactile feel, and it folds to about the size of a paperback book, about 1/4 the size of a regular keyboard. http://shopping.yahoo.com/p:Palm m500 Portable Keyboard:1990808602;_ylt=AugU7IngGkyIhCUjhfLPxHKVI74F;_ylu=X3oDMTA4ZXVyOWdvBHNlYwNyZWNv This kind of model is very hard to find now, but there are many hard plastic USB keyboards that fold in 1/2: http://shopping.yahoo.com/p:Toshiba Targus Universal USB Portable Keyboard:1993566256;_ylt=ApzxWJ9rOXGg9eKrQctpiO6VI74F;_ylu=X3oDMTA4ZXVyOWdvBHNlYwNyZWNv http://www.matias.ca/foldingkeyboard/ http://secure.tabletkiosk.com/tkstore/pc/viewPrd.asp?idcategory=24&idproduct=165 _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
