The Micro Innovations keyboard is the Pocketop keyboard under a different name. Pocketop.net claims to be coming out with a driver soon. I tried all the other drivers and they don't work with the XDA. Before I returned the unit to the store, I tried it out with my old Palm. I must confess that it was very hard to work with. The upper and lower rows of keys are half-sized, there is no dedicated row of number keys, and the space bar is awkward to the point of unusability. The main advantage is that, because the PDA isn't attached to the keyboard, you can orient it any which way (as long as the IrDA port has a line of sight to the keyboard). So you could work with the PDA in landscape mode, which is great for word processing.

One thing you should probably test before you keep the Pocketop is how well it performs under different lighting conditions. I find that the fluorescents in my office do a real number on IrDA connections.

I recently bought the XDA custom keyboard from datanywhere.com, and I'm very happy with it. On the downside:

* The keys are narrower and packed more tightly than those on the Stowaway I used to have for my Palm. They reminded me of the GoType.

* The right shift key is too close to an arrow key, so I keep moving the cursor up when I go to shift.

* I have yet to figure out how to type accented characters.

* Occasionally I've had to do a soft reset to get keyboard and PDA talking to each other.

On the upside, the unit is more solid and sits on a table more stably than the Stowaway did. I find it very comfortable. Pictures are available at http://www.pocketpcmagic.com/foldablekeyboard/.

George