Yes, a keyboard would be very nice, but I like the ability to write in cursive writing anywhere on the screen which I have on my Simpad SL4. It's much faster and easier input than thumb typing on a keyboard. You can write at any slant and at any place on the screen. The speed of the Nokia chip would make the handwriting recognition just fly. The Nokia is billed as a "tablet" but I don't see anywhere in its literature or reviews online that it has handwriting recognition (cursive handwriting) that you can input anywhere on the screen.
The Simpad has shortcuts for copy or paste and even entering an address or name or ANYTHING in full...it's really great...beats the heck out of picking out letters on a virtual keyboard or printing letters one at a time at the bottom of the screen OR any keyboard. I don't understand why more PDA's don't have this feature. Is it that difficult to implement?
Also, here's a great device that's available now....
link to device Too bad it's around $2000.
There are some more "in the hand" photos of the device here.
Plus there's another (negetive) review here.
About the design - the thing slides on the sides to reveal some sort of a port or something. What port is that ?
Also, if they did incorporate a sliding device, why the hell couldnt they fit in a keyboard of some sort under the sliding mechanism ? That would have been great. Instead the who slide-out area seems to be blank except for a lone small port. Is that some sort of future expandibility feature they have left in intentionally ?
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