Think Outside Announces Availability of German and Japanese Versions of the Stowaway Portable Keyboard for Palm V and M100 Handhelds.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers CARLSBAD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 12, 2001 New Keyboards Broaden Think Outside's International Expansion Think Outside Inc. today announced availability of German and Japanese versions of its award-winning Stowaway(TM) Portable Keyboard Either a very small keyboard or a full-size keyboard that can be folded into a small unit for travel. Portable keyboards are available for PDAs and other handhelds as well as laptops. See virtual keyboard. for the Palm V and M100 series of handheld computers. "These new Stowaway keyboards are an important step in Think Outside's expansion into international markets," said Eydie Galper, vice president of marketing at Think Outside. "The decision to produce keyboards for these particular languages reflects our attention to the global market as well as the needs of our customers. Think Outside is the first to offer international models of a full-size keyboard that folds to pocket size." The new Stowaway keyboards provide dedicated German and Japanese character A Japanese character may refer to:
The Japanese keyboard is a modified QWERTY See QWERTY keyboard. (hardware) QWERTY - /kwer'tee/ (From the top left row of letter keys of most keyboards) Pertaining to a standard English-language typewriter keyboard (sometimes called the Sholes keyboard after its inventor), as opposed to Dvorak or foreign-language layout. The characters are in the same order as in an English keyboard, but the keyboard includes punctuation specific to the Japanese language Japanese language Language spoken by about 125 million people on the islands of Japan, including the Ryukyus. The only other language of the Japanese archipelago is Ainu (see Ainu), now spoken by only a handful of people on Hokkaido, though once much more widespread. . After the user has typed text phonetically, a series of commands converts the text into Kanji (human language, character) kanji - /kahn'jee/ (From the Japanese "kan" - the Chinese Han dynasty, and "ji" - glyph or letter of the alphabet. Not capitalised. Plural "kanji") The Japanese word for a Han character used in Japanese. characters. The German keyboard has a QWERTY layout, with the addition of umlaut umlaut (  m`lout) [Ger.,=transformed sound], in inflection, variation of vowels of the type of English man to men. punctuation over the appropriate keys. Think Outside also offers German and Japanese versions of the Stowaway keyboard for the Handspring Visor platform. Availability The new Stowaway keyboards, available now through Palm Computing in Japan and Palm, Inc., Germany, as the Palm Portable Keyboard, are available wherever Japanese- and German-language Palm handhelds are sold. About the Stowaway Portable Keyboard The Stowaway Portable Keyboard is the first 100-percent full-size, collapsible keyboard for handheld devices. No compromises were made on the keyboard: it combines all the advantages of portability plus the tactile feel of the best-quality notebook computer keyboards, delivering exactly what people need for touch typing. It is currently available from Palm Inc. as the Palm Portable Keyboard for Palm handhelds, and from Targus as the Targus Stowaway Portable Keyboard for Handspring Visor, Hewlett-Packard Jornada and Compaq iPAQ handheld devices. An additional version for Sony handhelds is scheduled for introduction soon. About Think Outside Think Outside Inc., founded in 1998, invents, engineers and manufactures mobile handheld devices. The privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. is headquartered in Carlsbad. For more information on Think Outside and its products, please visit the web site at www.thinkoutside.com. Note to Editors: Stowaway is a trademark of Think Outside Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Photos available upon request. |
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