I’ve bid on a Saitek Slimline Keyboard over at eBay. The auction ends in three hours and I’m the only bidder, so I might actually get it.

Last winter I bought an iPAQ kit that included a “keyboard” (and I use the term loosely); Tahmi told me I wouldn’t like it – she said all the reviews said it sucked eggs – and she was completely right.

The entire kit – screen protectors, PDA case, and keyboard, by iConcepts – was useless shit. The stylii are almost acceptable and I’ve actually used one a couple of times. The driver disk for the “keyboard” didn’t work (“The disk in drive A: is unreadable. Would you like Windows to format this disk?”) and I spent forever trying to locate the driver on the net.

I found one at the manufacturer’s site that installed onto my device properly, but the keyboard didn’t work at all. I mean, if you pushed “t” the Windows menu would drop down, if you pushed “s” it would type a “k,” and none of the app keys worked.

I did a little surfing for reviews on the Saitek keyboard, and the few I found were positive. Hopefully this means I’ll soon have a working PDA keyboard again; I never really use my keyboards much – I’ve had one for every PDA since the Newton – but when you want to use it, you really want to use it and it sucks not to have one.