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Summary: Pretty Good!
Review: I bought the LandWare GoType! keyboard for my Palm IIIe organizer, and I was pleased with the results. 1. The keyboard is small and lightweight, making it easy to carry. It even has a handle that pulls out of the back which provides support while typing, and can be a carrying utensil also. 2. It has shortcut buttons to certain programs on your Palm that you can even reprogram. For example, one button can take you right to your Memo Pad, and another can take you to your address book, etc. 3. One thing I didn't really like was that it was small, and a little bit cramped. After typing on a normal keyboard, going to the smaller keyboard is a little hard. The keys are very small, and the shift key is in an inconvenient place. 4. This is a good keyboard because it has a protective cover that flips up, and while protecting the keyboard, it also provides support for the Palm organizer to rest against while you're typing, so the organizer doesn't fall out. This is a great product, and I'd recommend it.
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Summary: Neato Mosquito
Review: This is an excellent keyboard for the Palm III and VII series. It's well constructed -- much better constructed than those flimsy Palm keyboards that fold into something roughly the size of a Palm III. It's definitely not the smallest Palm keyboard out there. It is, however, a keyboard you can actually type on. I have thin fingers and even I have trouble typing on the smaller Palm keyboards. In my opinion, LandWare hit a near perfect comprimise between size and utility with this product. The keyboard requires a driver, which is provided, to run on the Palm but this does not seem to get in the way. It also allows you to assign functions to the six function keys along the top of the keyboard. Despite the driver and lack of separate battery power for the keyboard, LandWare claims to have designed this product to have low battery drain. I have noticed an increase in battery drain since I started using the keyboard but, to be fair, I am also using my Palm at least 50% more than I used to. This is a very convenient product. You can type in any Palm application that requires data entry. This goes for any native Palm application as well as the bonus applications that come with the keyboard. Don't expect frills from the word processor. It's very spartan. It does, however, allow you to read and edit text and Palm DOC files easily. It's actually a capable little DOC reader. And there is a conduit to convert TEXT documents on your PC to DOC files on your Palm. This is a very thoughtful feature. I think LandWare has done an excellent job here. I give this product my highest possible technical nod. Within a week, it's become the most used (and certainly the neatest) Palm peripheral I have. It allows me to use my Palm as a direct replacement of my desktop PC for raw word processing -- and for short money, too. I love it.
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Summary: Key to Productivity
Review: When I won a PalmVIx in a raffle, I was determined to make the most of it. As an author, I had been frustrated with my lack of mobile computing capability and this seemed to be a godsend. However, for any extensive writing, the stylus soon made my hand cramp and reduced the usefulness of the handheld. All this changed after I bought the keyboard. It's large enough to touch-type at a speed almost matching that of my desktop machine, so I'm now able to write whole chapters on the Palm while I'm on the go, and come home to put them on my desktop machine.
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