‘Try Before You Buy’ FrogPad Demo

FrogPad, Inc., the leading innovator in productive mobile data entry technologies, has announced that its partnership with Giletech of Munich, Germany, has resulted in an on-screen Better Typing product that will help users learn touch-typing on the standard-setting FrogPad™ mobile computing accessory in as little as five hours, cutting learning to type one-handed by 75%.

“This is how you achieve real mobile productivity – chopping the learning curve for touch-typing one-handed on our product,” says Linda Marroquin, President and CEO of FrogPad. “We’re grateful to Giletech for continuing the rapid development of applications and aids for our keyboard. You could say the FrogPad’s really jumping right now!”

The on-screen Better Typing Software keyboard replication lets users look at the screen instead of the keyboard, because the keyboard is reproduced on whatever standard input program – a Word document, for example, or an Excel spreadsheet – is being used.

“Better Typing Software combined with FrogPad dramatically cuts the touch-typing learning curve,” says Marroquin. The result is maximum improvement of eye-hand coordination and muscle memory. User can even download the Giletech e-tutor (a Windows application) as a ‘Try Before You Buy’ FrogPad demo. Available at www.giletech.net/Typing-Tutor/bt4fpdemo_set.exe

For those who don't know what a FrogPad keypad is, here are the first couple of questions from the FrogPad FAQ page. I think it's an extremely intriguing product. One of these days I'll get my hands on a BlueTooth FrogPad Keypad and find out how well it will work as a replacement for the Palm Universal Wireless Keyboard I currently use with my Palm TX.

What is the FrogPad™ keypad?
A: An elegantly small, intuitive and powerful interface for input and information access with a variety of devices. It solves the keyboard limitations that until now have stood in the way of achieving the objective of information access anytime, anywhere and from any device. It also replaces device interfaces that are awkward, space inefficient, time-consuming to learn and inappropriate for wireless computing because they are based on keyboard layouts that are over 100 years old and technologies that are nearly fifty years old. View Full Image of FrogPad

Q: How does FrogPad™ work?
A: Unlike chording keyboards, 86% of the time you only have one key to press. You never press more than two keys at one time, similar to the shift on your current keyboard.

Q: How small is the FrogPad™?
A: The FrogPad™ is 5 x 3.5 x .4 inches and weighs 4.9 ounces but the keys are the same size as those found on a standard size keyboard.

Q: Is the FrogPad™ compatible with my device?
A: FrogPad™ is a standard USB plug-and-play keyboard and can be used with wearable PC's, Tablets, DeskTops, Laptops, Linux, and MACs (OS 9) and above. It has a cable connector for both a standard PC and all USB host applications. The Bluetooth FrogPad™ will interface to all Bluetooth MAC’s and PC’s and we have beta drivers for Mobile phones and PDA’s.