PalmOne Portable Keyboard for Palm m100/m105, III Series, and VII Series Handhelds
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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
Pros:
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
Pros:
- Highly portable
- Customizeable
- Will need to work on flat surface
Amazon.com Product Description:
With Palm's portable keyboard for III/VII/m100 handheld, you can leave your laptop in the office. This pocket-sized keyboard allows you to take notes at your next meeting or write reports on an airplane. The full-size keyboard folds into a size just slightly bigger than a Palm handheld itself. It weighs less than 8 ounces, making it a practical enhancement for those seeking the speed of data entry that only a keyboard provides. The collapsible design means that you can take the keyboard with you and use it almost everywhere you go. The nine user-programmable keys let you instantly access the applications and programs you use most. This keyboard is easy to use, and since it uses minimal power from your Palm handheld, it requires no additional batteries. It comes with an integrated docking cradle and a neoprene carrying case.
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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- Truly Portable Word Processing!
I am a writer who hates lugging a laptop around. My Dell lasts less than 2 hours on a charge, weighs too much and can't be let out of sight without being stolen. It is useless on the road except for setting up in a hotel room. I have a Palm IIIxe I bought on eBay 4 years ago for under $30.00 but used only as an address and date book. I picked up this keyboard in the past few weeks, combined it with a copy of WordSmith for word processing and now I can't imagine being without it. Everything weighs ... Read More
Rating: - Palm Key board
I never really used my palm until I bought this key board.It is great I use it all the time now.The keyboard was like new and works great.
Rating: - Love it!!
I really like this item.I like it for school a lot.When I do my reports it is a very cool tool to have.The shortcuts are cool too.
Rating: - I love this!
I have had my Palm for about 2 years and bought a keyboard when it was only a couple of months old. I took that one back because it was sold without software. I decided not to buy another one because I didn't want to have to run up to the computer store again.
I'm a journalist, so I'm using my Palm daily now and am always having to pull up the keyboard on the screen. This get's a be a pain when I'm writing a list of interview questions or writing down who I talked to or emailed in a contact ... Read More
Rating: - good for typing papers
During the day when I'm not around a computer I use mine to type papers.Then when I get home I can put it on the computer and format it!
- Truly Portable Word Processing!I am a writer who hates lugging a laptop around. My Dell lasts less than 2 hours on a charge, weighs too much and can't be let out of sight without being stolen. It is useless on the road except for setting up in a hotel room. I have a Palm IIIxe I bought on eBay 4 years ago for under $30.00 but used only as an address and date book. I picked up this keyboard in the past few weeks, combined it with a copy of WordSmith for word processing and now I can't imagine being without it. Everything weighs ... Read More
- Palm Key boardI never really used my palm until I bought this key board.It is great I use it all the time now.The keyboard was like new and works great.
- Love it!!I really like this item.I like it for school a lot.When I do my reports it is a very cool tool to have.The shortcuts are cool too.
- I love this!I have had my Palm for about 2 years and bought a keyboard when it was only a couple of months old. I took that one back because it was sold without software. I decided not to buy another one because I didn't want to have to run up to the computer store again.
I'm a journalist, so I'm using my Palm daily now and am always having to pull up the keyboard on the screen. This get's a be a pain when I'm writing a list of interview questions or writing down who I talked to or emailed in a contact ... Read More
- good for typing papersDuring the day when I'm not around a computer I use mine to type papers.Then when I get home I can put it on the computer and format it!
