Brando's Mini Bluetooth Keyboard eases phone typing

by Chris Ziegler, posted Sep 13th 2006 at 1:54PM

Predictive text and alternative keypad arrangements (some bizarre) ease the painstaking procedure of hammering out the occasional email or note on the old mobile, but at the end of the day, nothing beats good, old-fashioned QWERTY (or Das Keyboard, if that's how you roll) for text entry. Brando's new $56 Mini Bluetooth Keyboard takes the old, tried-and-true formula of the foldable keyboard and scales it down a smidge, giving users a device that they can realistically carry pretty much everywhere they're taking their phone. Usability is an open question -- those keys do look mighty small -- but we're figuring a crappy keyboard is better than none at the end of the day.

Filed under: Peripherals

Tags: accessory, bluetooth, brando, fold, foldable, input, keyboard, mini bluetooth keyboard, MiniBluetoothKeyboard, peripheral, text, text entry, TextEntry

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David @ Sep 14th 2006 4:06PM

I hope I can get one at the end of the day.
Maybe UPS will send it via "End Of The Day" express.
But at the end of the day, I might just get a new BlackBerry Pearl... At the end of the day! aharg@%#&!!!

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