07-15-2003, 05:17 PM
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Executive Editor
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 29,160
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Bluetooth Keyboards
Ok, pop quiz time: who's working on a Bluetooth keyboard for the Pocket PC?
The answer? I have no idea! Google has no idea!. It seems like the most obvious solution in the world to me, and others, yet no one has stepped up to the plate.
What's up with that?
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07-15-2003, 05:20 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 115
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Possibly the only thing i was looking forward to using Bluetooth for, and no-one even announced it's in the works? :?
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07-15-2003, 05:26 PM
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Magi
Join Date: Sep 2005
Posts: 2,341
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I believe Pocketop are.......it's down the road a ways yet though.
Dave
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07-15-2003, 05:27 PM
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07-15-2003, 05:30 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 382
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A BT thumbboard would be pretty cool too.
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07-15-2003, 05:34 PM
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Sage
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 717
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I think it is because it is too obvious, that's why no one has thought of it. I think BT is fantastic for this sort of application. What kills me is that they have earbuds/microphone sets but not this. :!:
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07-15-2003, 05:34 PM
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Executive Editor
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Quote:
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Originally Posted by Surur
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Cool! All is not lost! :-) I really don't like the "floppy" keyboard designs though...
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07-15-2003, 05:36 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Aug 2002
Posts: 124
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Here are a few of my guesses...
Manufacturers believe that if they made a bluetooth keyboard there would be no need to upgrade the keyboard the next time you upgraded your PPC...
Manufacturers think keyboards are consumable items - as a result, they believe they would lose the residual income as they roll out new PPCs...
PPC manufacturers don't want you to use the keyboard they made for their PPC on a competitors PPC...
PPC Keyboard manufacturers don't know bluetooth exists?!
Joe...
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07-15-2003, 05:39 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jun 2003
Posts: 191
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I don't know when it is supposed to come out or if it is already out but there is a bluetooth keyboard made by the company who is providing the keyboards for the new MS Smartphones being released by Orange over in the UK... don't remember the name of the company but they did have a picture on the site... its small and flexible and i would assume it works/will work w/ ppc since they seem to target MS products...sorry i don't feel like going and looking for it 
On a side note... i think one reason why we aren't seeing many is simply because of the form factor - most of the current keyboards allow u to have you handheld vertical which is very nice... if u did that w/ a blootooth keyboard u would be losing the only advantage that BT has... not having to attach the handheld to something... still i think they should be made available though
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07-15-2003, 05:41 PM
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Sage
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 740
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This is why I made my original post (accidentally to the front page  ops: ) the other day. This is a HUGE hole in the Pocket PC world.
With new PDA's like the iPAQ 1940 and 1930 that don't have serial support, but do have BlueTooth, this is a solution that is BEGGING for a developer to take care of it.
Utimately, it should be foldable or rollable, but I know I'd pay for a keyboard that I could bounce from PDA to PDA (or even PC to PC for that matter, provided BlueTooth is BlueTooth between devices, and the appropriate PC drivers existed...). This could be the true beginning of universal accessories for PDA's.
I sure hope someone picks this up and runs with it.
Kind Regards,
Christopher Spera
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Christopher Spera
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