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Title: if you like IM'ing all day long....
Post by: williamjoseph on Mon, 28 September 2009, 11:33:27

http://cgi.ebay.com/Mini-Wireless-83Keys-Bluetooth-Keyboard-For-Sony-HP-IBM_W0QQitemZ160364222254QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item255673d72e&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

Title: if you like IM'ing all day long....
Post by: itlnstln on Mon, 28 September 2009, 11:38:54

Man, that thing looks to be perfectly the wrong size to be useful.  You really can't type with two hands on it, because it's too small.  You really can't thumb it, either, because it's too big.

Title: if you like IM'ing all day long....
Post by: kode on Mon, 28 September 2009, 12:13:09

Back when Ericsson did mobile phones (that is, before Sony Ericsson) they had a peripheral keyboard, the ericsson chatboard, which was smaller than that one, 49 keys.

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3215/2998595522_01a29ec993.jpg)

Title: if you like IM'ing all day long....
Post by: itlnstln on Mon, 28 September 2009, 12:48:11

That still looks like a lot of unnecessary motion. I like Palm and Blackberry-sized keyboards a lot better. They're compact and don't require a lot of movement to get from key to key.
 
The other thing I just thought of is that Ericsson accessory looks like it might damage the phone if you held it in the air while typing based on the weight of the phone on the connector.

Title: if you like IM'ing all day long....
Post by: kode on Wed, 30 September 2009, 03:19:47

They sort of designed the connector to handle large peripherals, though. But no, the chatboard didn't ever make it very big, I think that at the end they just handed them out at the stores and still noone wanted them.