PDAs: PDA with a keyboard?

built-in keyboards vs transcribers vs foldup keyboards

Dear Primaz,

You said,

"What all the PDA's and mobile devices lack is a touch type keyboard and that is what most really want!"

I disagree with that. On the occasions that a keyboard is needed for extensive typing, a person can use a fold up keyboard. The fold-up keyboards have all of the room of regular keyboards, yet still compact. The built-in keyboards just take up more room on the pocket pc, resulting in a design of a larger, bulkier pda or a smaller view screen. Since the keys are mechanical, they'll malfunction over time, stick or jam from wear or grime. And besides, the keyboard on a pda is so tiny that they are impractical for full scale typing, and minimal advantage over the stylus keyboard and maybe no advantage over the handwriting transcribe function.

I think that the handwriting transcriber function is ingenious, and whomever developed the technology for it should be congratualated.

Thats my opinion on that. When I am away from my office computer, I'll have to either limit my Re's to messages to a few sentences (which is all alot of people want) or bring along a foldup keyboard.

Don