the keyboard auto connects before the o s boots up. I am able to to use it to type in my password.
well you know
good news for me anyway.bluetooth portable keyboard
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good news Ben
the keyboard auto connects before the o s boots up. I am able to to use it to type in my password.
well you know good news for me anyway.
the keyboard auto connects before the o s boots up. I am able to to use it to type in my password.
well you know
good news for me anyway.-
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Re: bluetooth portable keyboard
That looks really cool, Joe. I might have a think about one of those.
As you all know, I'm out and about all day with my job and have to lug a big heavy bag around with a load of essential railway stuff. But I also need my own essentials (lunch and dinner, bottle of water, mug, coffee and teabags, book, newspaper, filofax etc. etc.). I have two phones! One's a company blackberry plus my personal Samsung 'mini' smartphone. Smartphones are amazing - well, what you can do with apps is amazing - but the screen's are too small to make them truly useful.
I'm a late convert, I know, but I've just found the perfect answer and it's the best and most useful toy I've ever had. It's a 7 inch Android Galaxy tablet which Carphone Warehouse discounted from £400 to £250. With it's fancy leather cover it's exactly the size of a paperback book. It's a little heavier but feels more comfortable to hold. In a nutshell, it's a smartphone but bigger. It doesn't replace my phone or my laptop but it sits exactly in between and bridges the gap. My work bag is now much lighter and emptier because it's replaced my book, my newspaper, my filofax and all my railway documents.
Here's what it is:
It's a kindle. I download and read digital books from Amazon.
It's a newspaper. I read The Times on it every day (costs £2 a week).
It stores all my railway books and documents in PDF form.
Because it's google it syncs with my gmail email account and all my contacts and my calendar are synced automatically between my laptop, phone and tablet.
I can store and display all my photos on it.
It has an internet browser, wifi and 3G.
It has a live Railway planner which shows you where your train is now and what platform it's arriving at.
It has a bus app which shows every bus stop in the UK with a timetable of all the buses and destinations arriving at that stop during the day. If it's a GPS equipped bus stop it will give you live running info. It will show you a street view of the bus stop and will give you walking directions from your present position (it has GPS) to the stop.
It has an underground app with live departure boards for all stations.
It has an RAC Traffic app that shows you live traffic hot spots all over the Country.
It has a full, free, talking satnav - courtesy of google maps.
It has a memo pad for jotting down notes.
It has live BBC News and weather.
It's got X-Plane 9.
It's got Need for Speed and you use the tablet as the steering wheel.
It has SMS and a phone but the size that makes it better than a phone for most things defeats it here. You wouldn't want to carry a book sized thing everywhere as a phone.
The battery lasts me about 10 hours in constant use or a couple of days on standby.
Running cost is £5 a month for a 500Mb data bundle from Tesco Mobile which covers surfing. Using wifi for downloads is free.
Of course, the thousands of apps available means that you can personalise it to whatever suits you. So if you move around a bit, like I do, it's the most amazingly useful thing since legs. But it doesn't do anything a phone or a laptop can't do. It's purely a size thing.
I love it! Even the keyboard is easy to use in landscape.
Ian
As you all know, I'm out and about all day with my job and have to lug a big heavy bag around with a load of essential railway stuff. But I also need my own essentials (lunch and dinner, bottle of water, mug, coffee and teabags, book, newspaper, filofax etc. etc.). I have two phones! One's a company blackberry plus my personal Samsung 'mini' smartphone. Smartphones are amazing - well, what you can do with apps is amazing - but the screen's are too small to make them truly useful.
I'm a late convert, I know, but I've just found the perfect answer and it's the best and most useful toy I've ever had. It's a 7 inch Android Galaxy tablet which Carphone Warehouse discounted from £400 to £250. With it's fancy leather cover it's exactly the size of a paperback book. It's a little heavier but feels more comfortable to hold. In a nutshell, it's a smartphone but bigger. It doesn't replace my phone or my laptop but it sits exactly in between and bridges the gap. My work bag is now much lighter and emptier because it's replaced my book, my newspaper, my filofax and all my railway documents.
Here's what it is:
It's a kindle. I download and read digital books from Amazon.
It's a newspaper. I read The Times on it every day (costs £2 a week).
It stores all my railway books and documents in PDF form.
Because it's google it syncs with my gmail email account and all my contacts and my calendar are synced automatically between my laptop, phone and tablet.
I can store and display all my photos on it.
It has an internet browser, wifi and 3G.
It has a live Railway planner which shows you where your train is now and what platform it's arriving at.
It has a bus app which shows every bus stop in the UK with a timetable of all the buses and destinations arriving at that stop during the day. If it's a GPS equipped bus stop it will give you live running info. It will show you a street view of the bus stop and will give you walking directions from your present position (it has GPS) to the stop.
It has an underground app with live departure boards for all stations.
It has an RAC Traffic app that shows you live traffic hot spots all over the Country.
It has a full, free, talking satnav - courtesy of google maps.
It has a memo pad for jotting down notes.
It has live BBC News and weather.
It's got X-Plane 9.
It's got Need for Speed and you use the tablet as the steering wheel.
It has SMS and a phone but the size that makes it better than a phone for most things defeats it here. You wouldn't want to carry a book sized thing everywhere as a phone.
The battery lasts me about 10 hours in constant use or a couple of days on standby.
Running cost is £5 a month for a 500Mb data bundle from Tesco Mobile which covers surfing. Using wifi for downloads is free.
Of course, the thousands of apps available means that you can personalise it to whatever suits you. So if you move around a bit, like I do, it's the most amazingly useful thing since legs. But it doesn't do anything a phone or a laptop can't do. It's purely a size thing.
I love it! Even the keyboard is easy to use in landscape.
Ian
Re: bluetooth portable keyboard
speedbird591 wrote:It's got Need for Speed and you use the tablet as the steering wheel. Ian
I can imagine Ian
