Pocketop Inc - Products - Pocketop Portable Keyboard

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A Disappearing Keyboard JULY 29, 2002 - RUSSELL KAY Even though the Treo and Sharp have built-in thumb keyboards, they aren't well suited to entering a lot of text. If that's something you need to do, consider an external keyboard. The original folding keyboard, the Stowaway, is available from Targus for most PDAs, and it works as well as ever. But there's a new kid on the keyboard block that's barely half the size of the Stowaway and yet its keys and key spacing are very nearly as big. The Pocketop from Pocketop Computer Corp. in Vancouver, British Columbia, not only squeezes a keyboard into an impossibly small space, but its wireless, too. The unit uses infrared (IR) to communicate with the Palm OS device and includes an adjustable stand as well as a variety of fittings to attach the keyboard to different models. Because PDAs have IR ports in different places and are different sizes, the stand includes an adjustable pull-out mirror. In fact, you can attach the keyboard to the Palm M515 and carry them together. The package is a little too thick for a shirt pocket, but in a jacket or briefcase, you'll hardly notice it. The keyboard's touch is quite good, especially considering that it folds up. However, one way it's kept so small is by overlaying the numbers and symbols onto the main three-row keyboard. Still, that's a reasonable compromise. All in all, at $119, this is a dandy accessory.