This is my very exciting, brand new portable keyboard! It connects with my smart phone using bluetooth, which means that when I use my BlogIt! app on Android, I’m able to blog and type on a decent size keyboard from my bed, or when travelling! I am very excited about it. I’ve been investigating different types of keyboards online and went into Officeworks earlier today to try a few out and see how they felt to type on. There’s a tricky trade off with a portable keyboard, you want it to be smaller than standard size, because that’s just a pain to lug around, but you also want to still be able to comfortably touch type on it, else what’s the point? You might as well just use your phone otherwise…

I tried a few out, there wasn’t much choice once the field was limited to wireless, bluetooth, and android compatible. This one was hands down the best option, It’s sturdy with an aluminium frame and firm case to protect the keys when travelling. The real big seller for me though is that all of the keys were in a standard keyboard location! I was really surprised by some of the compact keyboards which had bizarre ways of cramping the keys into a small space by doing things like rearranging the punctuation so that the ? is now found by pressing the Fn key and the H… this makes touch typing rather difficult!

This keyboard is partly my way of holding myself off on getting a new fancy, exciting, and entirely unnecessary tablet for the moment. I’m sure the lure of the larger screen will get to me in the end, but for now I’m saving my pennies for other exciting purchases! I am starting to really enjoy being on holidays now that I’ve got past the first couple of days of feeling restless and antsy and I’m looking forward to some travelling and sightseeing and investigating the world around me, once the heatwave passes.

In the meantime I have exciting new technology and am enjoying lugging card and board games with me everywhere to play with friends. It’s great to have a whole bunch of people in my life who like games too! I’m enjoying this vacation enormously. 🙂