Palm 3169WW Universal Wireless Keyboard
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Customer Review: Good, but not as good as what it replaced
Summary: 3 Stars
When my Palm M505 died, I needed a replacement. The old Palm keyboard was full size and had a very nice touch; I preferred it to my regular PC keyboard. I have large hands and could use it very easily.
This keyboard is sturdier but the keys are smaller. My fingers routinely hit the wrong keys. Further, the keyboard layout is non standard, putting the cursor arrows where the ? should be. When I press <shift> and intend to type a question mark, I actually press the up arrow key which highlights a line of text, which is erased by the very next key I press. After this happens several times, you wonder why this poor choice made it off the drawing board. As the keyboard is non-standard, it is a continual distraction to use it.
Customer Review: Good in look, Hard to open, Unreliable to use
Summary: 1 Stars
I bought this for my Palm TX only because of the fluent feeling of the PPK for my Palm Vx. I use my PDA more than the laptop for emails and posting articles on blogs. Surely I need a reliable keyboard for my handheld.
Unfortunately this item is totally a failuer and a reputation crasher. After using it for few days, I have to waste more and more time to switch the driver on and off to get the two devices connected. Recently it even caused an unexpected hard reset on my PDA and wiped out all the data on it. It took hours to restore everything back online.
Unless Palm Inc. provides a update of driver to fix this problem completely, I highly suggest NOT to buy it. It's not worth your money and time.
Customer Review: Defective design, no retaining clips to hold device
Summary: 1 Stars
There are no retaining arms to hold the PDA in place. The bottom of the Treo is rounded. The support on the keyboard is flat with no sides, so the least jiggle causes the PDA to fall off, not a good idea with a $500-$600 device. Could not get the screen to rotate sideways, so lying it on its side was not an option. You would not be able to use this easily on an airplan, in a car or any place without a table. Because it uses an IR, the PDA must be placed on the keyboard. A docking port or blue tooth are much better designs because the device is either connected and held in place or the keyboard can be used on your lap and the device can be placed on a flat surface. This keyboard is defective in design.Customer Review: Palm wireless keyboard
Summary: 3 Stars
Overall, pretty good. I must have had a newer CD since it installed fine. The main problems are that:
1. You still need to use the stylus a lot, and there isn't a place to put it. A little holder would be great. (Hint, hint!)
2. The "Home" and "End" keys don't work. Period. Miss them a lot!
3. I use my right thumb, by habit, to type the spacebar, and that's just where the hinge thing is -- so I'm trying to train myself to type space with my left thumb, which is really hard still.
Overall, I'm delighted to have it. (I think one of the reviewers is reviewing a different product, since there isn't a connector on this keyboard -- it's wireless.)
Customer Review: Not ready for prime time keyboard
Summary: 2 Stars
Perhaps if I had loads of time to fiddle with it, I could get this keyboard to work reliably. But since I'm someone who would rather plug and play and work, so far it looks like a waste of money. I cannot get the keyboard to connect reliably to my Palm T|X. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't and I can't make rhyme nor reason as to why. Maybe if I spent a few hours on some discussion group or tried a customer service hotline to India and stayed on hold for a day or two. At any rate, I can't recommend it unless you just love to tinker and search the discussion groups for esoteric fixes for software and hardware that should work out of the box, especially for the prices demanded.