The wireless keyboard begins to live up to its 'universal' moniker as it adds support for popular Symbian devices.
The next chapter in the Pocketop IR keyboard saga has arisen: the universal keyboard now supports Symbian. Sort of.
The manufacturer has already attracted attention, not just for the innovation of its keyboard, which is the first of its kind, but also for a number of delays in shipping drivers for certain devices - which called into question its status as a 'universal' keyboard.
Recently, Pocketop added beta drivers for the Sony Ericsson P800 and Nokia Series 60 devices to their support page, which makes the Pocketop the first add-on keyboard for these devices and extends Pocketop's range of platforms to five: Series 60, UIQ, Pocket PC, Palm OS and Linux. This potentially marks a recognition that smartphones can have serious uses, and require a full data entry solution. Thus far, however, Microsoft's Smartphone 2002 and Windows Mobile for Smartphone 2003 platforms are left out in the cold - perhaps unsurprisingly, considering only in excess of 100,000 devices have been shipped using these platforms worldwide.
Users are advised to read installation instructions carefully, and to operate on the awareness that these drivers are at beta level.
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