Subj : Bluetooth Keyboard To : Ky Moffet From : Barry Martin Date : Fri Sep 13 2024 09:07:00 Hi Ky! > Actually the information is for someone else (Ed?); I was thinking it > was similar to the two-sided device I told about: keyboard one side and > touch pad the other. (To others reading: which ever side is up is > active, so the touchpad is inactive when using the keyboard.) KM> We have many shotgun conversations: if you're in the way, you get KM> talked to. And sometimes I learn something! > KM> To the nominal topic, I found this: > KM> https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BMDQD5WV > KM> It came with... ....instructions. Rather extensive > KM> instructions. > In English??!!!!! KM> Astonishingly, yes. And not as microscopic as usual. There have been times I've scanned the 2"x2" manual-ette just to get it to a legible size. ...OTOH I scan manuals If I can't find them on-line so I have an electronic copy and don't have to store or especially find the original. > KM> It is 4.5x2.4 inches and barely weighs anything, and the keys > KM> seem decent, tho a trifle smaller than they look. Pairs with the > KM> phone and the Fire tablet right off. (Well, once I remembered > KM> that it has an on/off switch.) Lacks a tab key, has everything > KM> else, one way or another, plus a lot of extra characters. > KM> If you want one with real keys that is literally pocket-sized > KM> (smaller than any modern phone) it's your boy. > That paragraph sounds like lifted from a review!! KM> Probably because it was -- mine. :D Hope you got permission from your other personality to use it here! KM> I wrote a glowing review of some inexpensive side-shades for KM> eyeglasses, and a few days later here came two extra pair, KM> apparently in appreciation by the vendor. (I'd bought some, KM> liked, bought more so I have enough to use everywhere. Very KM> helpful if you're to the age where baby cataracts scatter light KM> that comes in from the side, making blurry/painful vision.) Better than I have done so far! I have written a few reviews starting off with something like "It's hard to get excited about" but then continue with how unexpected good it was; the extra layer of bubble wrap to be sure not damaged in shipment, etc. > The only drawback I noted right away was the lack of a touchpad. I did > go back to try to find a tab - nope, not even as a Function - odd. > ..What's the blue block thing on the spacebar? Could that be tab: six > or eight spaces?? KM> If you're using it with a phone, you've already got your touchpad KM> in the phone's screen. The lack of tab means you can't tab KM> between items in a web page or among control buttons onscreen, KM> more of an issue if you're replacing a PC keyboard, not so much KM> for a phone where you already don't have most of these functions. Or as Ed (?) mentioned in a reply his phone already has a tiny keyboard and that was what he was trying to improve. One detail is possibly the phone's virtual keyboard has the keys touching, so too easy to have a finger flop over whereas the real albeit tiny keyboard has separated keys, making it harder to activate two at the same time. > The other thing is I would have preferred a USB-C charging port so on e > doesn't squint as to which side up for the charging cable. I know: > super-picky. KM> Yeah, USB-C is certainly a LOT easier. All other sorts you try to KM> plug in wrong, turn it over, it's still wrong, turn it over again KM> and NOW it fits?? USB-A!!! KM> It's also bigger (enough to be an issue for very thin devices), KM> and probably costs a lot more (if you're doing millions, ten KM> cents adds up) and also already designed around micro-USB and KM> have lots in existing stock. But it is slowly going away. Agree. A penny extra when purchasing a part to you and I is nothing. Mutliply that by a million...... Company I used to work for in New Hampshire used to give away small quantities of extra electronic parts. Was cheaper to buy a million than the needed 850,000. The extra were available in the Electronic Store; generally anything like resistors and transistors was cheaper to give away less than ten than to do the paperwork. Yes, I still have a bunch of discrete parts sorted in coin envelopes downstairs. ¯ ® ¯ BarryMartin3@MyMetronet.NET ® ¯ ® .... Thanks for letting me excite your electrons. --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.47 þ wcECHO 4.2 ÷ ILink: The Safe BBS þ Bettendorf, IA --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com | 856-933-7096 (454:1/1) .