Jealous of that person next to you pecking away on the fold-up keyboard attached to their Palm while you're struggling tocompose an e-mail on your cell phone's 10-key pad? Well, Motorola (MOT
) has teamed up with keyboard maker Think Outside to simplify text entry on the iDen phones it makes for Nextel (NXTL
) and others. The keyboard is hit or miss for Web browsing, but it's just the ticket for typing short messages. When you're finished, it folds accordion-like to the size of a small paperback book.
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