Increase productivity with the Stowaway Sierra BT keyboard
As regular readers know I take my Samsung Q1 UMPC on the road for work all the time and am actually hitting the road for 3 days today. When I know I'll be entering lots of text I pack along my ThinkOutside Bluetooth Keyboard and rechargeable AAA batteries. This keyboard works well, but it does get to be a bit of pain to use the green and blue function buttons to type any numbers. This is especially painful as an engineer when I am trying to fill out an Excel spreadsheet. Kevin Tofel just posted a full review of the new iGo Stowaway Sierra Bluetooth keyboard that he picked up for about US$100 on Amazon. The footprint of the keyboard is about the same as the smaller one I have, but it is about twice as thick. It is this thick because it folds open in 4 pieces rather than 2 and is a full size keyboard with a dedicated number row. Kevin showed lots of pics and even a good comparison of the model I have on top of the new model. I think my productivity would seriously increase with this keyboard and may get rid of my current model for this one soon as well.