O2 XDA Thumbpad Silver /Alu

[Anonymous]

Hi is their a silver XDA Thumbpad avaliable on the market or third party?

[andyclap]

Not sure about silver, but I have the black one and it's quite nice (good key-feel etc), but totally unusable becuase of simple bad design. An extra row of 'special function' (read: semi-useless) keys should be put somewhere out of the way, not between the spacebar and the zxcvbnm row.

As a suitable punishment, whoever designed the layout of these keys should be bodily attached with extra-strength superglue to the person at Compaq who decided to ship keyboards with the space bar split into two, one half working as a backspace key.

[Anonymous]

I couldn't agree more!

I have a black one, and it is certainly slower to use than most thumb keyboards I've had in the past, partly because of those 'special keys' being in a daft spot.

..that coupled with the fact my 'Fn' (like a shift) keeps getting flipped on when I type fast, and sometimes won't turn off until I reset my XDA, since the keyboard driver 'goes to lunch'. Anyone else seen this? (my driver is G3B0 v1.28 build 1127)

..lance

[gazzaman2k]

hes on about the silver round 5 way button guys not a clip on keybaord!

[andyclap]

Oh, in that case, no idea!
Anybody looked into customising this little round widget?
It would be nice to be able to replace it with a homebrew one that was actually ergonomic. I.e. good for games ;)

[jerome]

Can some one post some pictures of the Thumbpad connected with the O2 XDA i need to see how it looks like before i purchase :idea:

[xdaer]

even after all the bad reviews of the thumbpads, I still would mind trying one out. (if they work with the XDA2, different body shape to the XDA1??) I know I'll probably regret the purchase like everyone else but is anyone wanting to offload a thumbpad cheap? incidentally I bought a Pocket Top IR keyboard but apparently there isn't a driver for the XDA2.

Cheers

[arebelspy]

I love the XDA II Thumb Keyboard, it's awesome!

-arebelspy