Mobility Electronics has launched the latest in its line of
Stowaway portable keyboards under its
Think Outside brand, the Bluetooth-based Stowaway Sierra. Ok, so it's not quite as catchily-named as the
Stowaway Shasta, but it does look to be a fair bit more versatile, compatible with Windows Mobile 5, Pocket PC, Palm and Symbian-based devices (with Bluetooth, of course), as well as Windows XP and Mac OS X, for anyone that finds their full-size desktop keyboard a little too comfortable. Unlike some portable keyboards, the Stowaway Sierra packs decently-sized 19mm keys, including dedicated numeric keys and shortcut keys for your smartphone, PDA, or Windows XP -- yet it still manages to fold up into pocketable (depending on the pocket) 5.0 x 3.5 x 0.9-inch package. You can snag this one now for $129.99.
posted Sep 17th 2006 9:18AM
That keyboard design's got some serious longevity. Whoever actually makes them has just been putting new connectors (or wireless adapters) on the same basic mechanism for more than six years now.
When I reviewed one, the top-of-the-range Palm was the Vx:
http://www.dansdata.com/portkey.htm
This isn't a bad thing, though; the folding keyboard is still a nifty device.
ITS BACK! ITS BACK! I loved that nifty Palm keyboard #1 mentioned. Every time I opened it, people would always look on in envy...
Mobility Electronics' Stowaway Sierra Bluetooth keyboard is good idea from the manufacturers. I like it very much.
http://cellworld-review.blogspot.com
I have to say I had one of the old versons of this keyboard and it's **totally brilliant**. (Tad expensive though).
Only one snag - when it comes to the crunch I never actually used it that much. Then I left it on a train. oh well, still nice.
You can also save a few bucks and get the keyboard via Amazon for $98. Happy wireless typing!
anyone tried this before?
http://freedominput.com/mainsite/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=77&Itemid=98
is it any good?
These guys from Freedom Input has been promising to realease their keyboard since February. I had emails with them 3 months ago when they said that in September was the release day... They used to call it Freedom Keyboard II back in February.
Now when is Sierra out I won't wait any longer. They just say bullshits
I think I bought this keyboard like 6 years ago for my Palm IIIc. Even though that IIIc broke a long time ago, I still keep the keyboard around because it was just so cool.