I’m in the market for a bluetooth QWERTY keyboard for my Nokia 6630. I’d settled on ThinkOutside’s Stowaway Universal Bluetooth Keyboard, which seems to be the overall favorite. Then I saw the VKB Embedded Virtual Keyboard (made in Israel, I’m proud to say, though their own website is as usual terrible). And now a third amazing option: Eleksen’s wireless fabric keyboard. For me the key is simply how well these actually work for fast typing. From what I read, the VKB only works very slowly for now—the wow factor is better than the actual usability. Now awaiting a product review for the Eleksen. Allaboutsymbian?
Update: positive review at the unwired, and here’s what I wanted to know: But it’s also definitely not as good as a real keyboard with plastic keys. The reason for this is that “touch typing” to a large extent involves the tactile feedback you get when pressing the keys – you don’t get really get this when you’re using the cloth keyboard. Yes, you do feel something when you press the keys, but it’s nowhere near comparable to the key travel you experience on a “normal” keyboard. I’d underestimated the importance of this until I tried typing on this keyboard, writes jenneth.info on an earlier version.
