Before you can use the Keyboard, you need to load a small application on your Palm device. The Portable Keyboard is a triumph of design. It has a very good feel to it, and it is simple to quickly touch-type on it. There are small holes on both sides of the top of the keyboard that hold your stylus, which you'll still need on occasion to tap on the screen. You may not need to use the stylus much, though.
All function keys have a similar icon or tag in blue.
What's really nice is that this keyboard doesn't require any additional batteries - it is powered by your Palm device. Since I ve had the Palm Portable Keyboard, I ve shown it to a number of people, many who don t even own Palm devices. The response is always one of amazement, and several folks have even said they d now consider purchasing a Palm now that they have a non-Graffiti way of entering text into the device. As for me, I have stopped bringing my laptop computer and power supply to meetings. Now I just pull my Palm IIIc out of one pocket, pop the Keyboard out of my back pocket, power up SmartDoc, and I ve got a very powerful note-taking machine at my fingertips.