Comments on: Freedom Slim Keypad – Credit Card Sized Bluetooth Keyboard

By: Paul Bowles (Technical Manager Freedom Input)

Paul Bowles (Technical Manager Freedom Input) — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 11:08:41 +0000

Hi,

I’m the technical manager for Freedom (so obviously my comments will be biased ). But there are a lot of people that cant get on with the Storm touch screen at all, just because you like suretype doesn’t mean that everyone does.

Suretype also doesn’t help if you have applications where you have to select options on screen that are close together (nothing more annoying on the Storm then trying to click on something from a list of items when the options are close together, especially if you have big fingers).

For the BB market place it is mainly the Storm users we are aiming at (for now at least) but I do know a lot of pearl users who have the Slim as well.

By: PShetty

PShetty — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 10:55:40 +0000

Seems to be very inspired from the O2 IR Keyboard.
Looks very similar to the IR Keyboard provided by O2 on the Atom Exec couple of years back.
O2 InfraRed Keyboard – http://www.techoni.com.au/product_info.php?products_id=1145

By: dbrown

dbrown — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 01:18:07 +0000

Is there any way. To add suretype to a curve 8330

By: Adrian

Adrian — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 21:50:46 +0000

I agree, it also costs too much.

By: KC

KC — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 22:25:24 +0000

This looks stupid. I don’t know how this is helpful at all. You would still have to use your thumbs, and for just using thumbs, SureType is amazing as you can hit enter in the middle of words if they are (as they often are) correct, and actually save time over a full QWERTY keyboard. What a useless device.

By: Fabian

Fabian — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 17:49:10 +0000

This is awesome! But only a Storm-User will buy it eventually…