A few hours ago the Level One Bluetooth BLK-2000 keyboard that I had ordered (after the previous mini-keyboard post) arrived so I’ve whipped up a quick video and some images for you.
First impressions are that the design is excellent but the keys might need bedding in. I’m finding that at the bottom of my natural keystroke, the button needs just a little bit more pressure than I’m used to. Time will tell if this proves to be a problem or not.
The built-in stand works well for the Vega although I’m a little worried that it was designed for 100g of mobile phone than for 500gm of PC. I’d like it to be a little more stable.
As you’ll hear in the video, setup was very simple. Drivers are included for Symbian Series 60, PocketPC, WM5, Palm OS, Symbian UIQ and Windows XP/2000. Battery life is claimed to be 90hours with a 160hours standby time. I guess ‘standby’ means its turned on but not being used.
Cable-free Road Warrior
In the picture below you see a complete road-warrior kit with 500Mhz PC, 30Gb storage, Bluetooth and WiFi sticks a 3G phone with 2GB miniSD card a 7″ touchscreen, keyboard and Bluetooth GPS module. Note that there isn’t a single cable in this set-up.
Click here to see the WMV video (4 mins)
Steve / Chippy.
tags: umpc, bluetooth, keyboard, mini office
September 18th, 2006 at 3:16 am
Hey Chippy,
Well done on the Video mate! I’m not sure if you layered an effect over it, or it was just your electric self coming across, but the video had a real MTV feel about it! Love your work.