Review of Bluetooth Virtual Keyboard

[Guest Confused Stu]

For Christmas 2005, I bought myself an iTech Bluetooth Virtual Keyboard. You know, one of those things that projects a keyboard onto the desk and you type on it?

Ever since then, I've been meaning to get around to writing a proper review of it as there aren't that many around that I know of. Well, I still haven't done a proper review, but someone this week put a needed foot to my backside and I have finally cobbled together a couple of coherent sentenses and stuck them on t'web.

If anyone is thinking of getting one and wants to read it, have a look on My Keyboard Review

I've put the page on the only website I've got, which is one I set up last year for my wedding, so apologies for the address!

If anyone's got any questions to do with my little toy, or if you've got any tests you want carried out to help you decide whether to buy one or not, post them up and I'll be happy to do them. ;)

[Guest fluffcat1]

If anyone's got any questions to do with my little toy, or if you've got any tests you want carried out to help you decide whether to buy one or not, post them up and I'll be happy to do them.  ;)

Here's one - approx how long before the novelty wears off? :roll: ....I had the previous version (non - bluetooth = far less usefull!) for christmas the year before - didn't even come with an XDA adaptor for the cable only the ipaq one....put it in the loft within 3 weeks...

Richard

[Guest Confused Stu]

The novelty of actually using it wore off after about a month (low intelligence = high boredom threshold!). It's still cool to bring out whenever someone new hasn't seen it, but once someone's seen it three times they get blaze.

To be honest, it's now moved from novelty to something actually usable. My handwriting is so bad the Transcriber program is only about 75% accurate and I'm annoyingly slow with the on-screen keyboard. If I'm sending a text I stick with the options on the phone, but for any e-mails or any Word documents I need to edit, I always get it out. So long as the typing is longer than a full text-worth, I do save time overall even after setting it up so I make the effort each time.

That said, should you be taking novelty advice from someone who still gets the SNES out after a few (large) drinks with the lads? Seeing my 30 year old friend with an X-Box 360 cry when I loaded up Mario Kart will warm my heart til the day I die! ;)