Case and Keyboard

[bitsink]

Finally got my SOKPAD delivered from Amazon today, £19.99 free delivery. So far my only complaint is the stupid design that does not prevent the Scroll sliding out of the wallet when held with the longest edge vertical. A rather basic fault imo. Two elastic bands will fix it until I have time to produce a more elegant modification. Not tried any extensive typing yet but it must be better than "touch typing" with the stylus!

[Diego]

Try pushing the brackets in. Mine was plenty tight.

[bitsink]

I was reluctant to do that initially as the brackets appear more brittle then bendable, however I applied some pressure and fixed the problem. Thanks

[JimmyW]

Velcro on the back is a winner, it's what I use to "clip" mine to the car dashboard for in car entertainment use (Playing speedx using the car for tilting anyone?)

[bitsink]

Velcro is one of the ideas I am toying with for the future

[JimmyW]

Got some industrial strength stuff from work (read: can stick me to the ceiling with it) and there's no way the pad is falling off unless I want it to

[idlemarvel]

I have just bought one of these integrated case / keyboard thingies and it's great!
You wouldn't want it or need it all the time, but if you need to do any serious or careful typing (terminal emulator commands spring to mind) this makes life soooo much easier.
Once you plug the keyboard into the host port it is active all the time, not just when there is an input prompt. So you can use the arrow keys to navigate around and the enter key as the equivalent of a screen tap. Using the arrow keys to scroll is also much easier then finger on screen.
There are some special keys, not sure what all of them do yet, but I'll work it out and post back. Also it is basically a US keyboard so heaven know how you type a UKP sign!
But I'm very pleased with it. It makes a nice solid stand for the tablet. Some contributors have said the tablet might slip out of the case when carried, I can't see that happening with mine, it took some force to squeeze it into the clips. Might become annoying if you have to keep taking the tablet in and out of the clips, but I guess you could just lean the tablet against the propped up case, it doesn't have to be in the clips to use the keyboard. When closed the screen would touch the top of the keys so I have used a spectacle cleaning cloth to lay on top of the keys before closing the lid. Protects the screen and doubles as a screen wipe.

[brianzion]

they are good cases and the keyboard is great for the size you can gently bend the clips till you get the right hold for the scroll fits nice into my laptop bag and so easy to cart about and im sure its quite protective if dropped.

[idlemarvel]

I have made a keyboad map showing all the keys. Some don't do anything, some have special purpose.
Word doc vesion on dropbox here http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14067828/keyboard.doc but extract below:

F1 context menu Alt-Shift-Q ` (grave) Alt-Shift-U ¨ (umlaut) Alt-Shift-C ¸(cedilla)
F3 call log(?) Alt-Shift-E ´ (acute) Alt-Shift-I ^ (circumflex) Alt-Shift-N ~ (tilde)
F4 power button Alt-Shift-R € (euro) Alt-Shift-S ß (sharp) Alt-Shift-. ...
 search Alt-Shift-T £ (pound) Alt-Shift-F ¥ (yen) Home home
Ctrl-Alt-Del reboot! Alt-Shift-Y ¡ Alt-Shift-K ~ End power button

To get e-acute for example, press Alt-Shift-E then E
Shift is a “sticky” key, in that you press it once and the next key you press will be shifted.

[Charlie]

@idlemarvel

Nice one - thanks.