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FrogPad has introduced a revolutionary portable one-handed keyboard, FrogPad, which uses Bluetooth HID drivers.

The company has also announced the seamless integration of FrogPad Bluetooth keyboard with Bluetooth-enabled UMPCs using Microsoft Origami, Nokia 770 Internet Tablet and Symbian Smartphones.

Dubbed the iFrog, the new keyboard incorporates FrogPad’s patented ergonomic layout designed around the 15 most-used letters in the English alphabet with the latest wireless Bluetooth technology, and accomplishes 100 per cent of all functions of a QWERTY keyboard.

Pioneering a new global standard for data entry, the FrogPad keyboard breaks the century-old QWERTY code. Unlike QWERTY, whose design was derived from the limitations of 19th Century typewriter technology, the FrogPad offers a patented logical algorithm and design that encourages correct ergonomic posture.

Additionally, given its use of full-size keys, the FrogPad offers users of mobile computing devices an superior alternative to the script-based, mini thumb keyboard platforms or folding keyboards currently available. The FrogPad offers users a consistent interface across desktop and mobile environments, no more re-learning a new data input method every time you upgrade a device.

After an average of 10 to 12 hours of training and practice, most FrogPad users can achieve input rates of up to 30 to 40 words per minute, as compared to the average of 10 to 20 words per minute by the fastest thumb typists, claims the company. And FrogPad can be adapted for wearable computing with Velcro straps.

Measuring just 3 by 5-inches, the iFrog is the only fully functional and portable keyboard with low profile, full-sized keys for fast, easy and accessible data entry. Created with designers, educators, students, mobile professionals and the physically challenged in mind, the Bluetooth iFrog gives mobile road warriors a viable alternative to the sub-optimal design of the QWERTY keyboard. For example, designers using CAD (computer-aided design) applications can now keep one hand on a mouse at all times and freely input data via the iFrog with the other hand.

“Enterprise and mobile road warriors have always been on the leading edge of adopting new tools that change the way people interact with technology - the iFrog fits that bill,” said Linda Marroquin, Founder, President and CEO, FrogPad. “As FrogPad becomes the new global standard for wireless data input, combining it with the Bluetooth wireless standard is a natural development. Therefore, we demand to know why more mobile products do not have Bluetooth HID as a standard integrated driver!”

The space-saving iFrog offers users mobility and portability in numerous commercial and industrial applications. With a built-in rechargeable battery, the iFrog can be charged either through a wall adapter plug or through a standard USB port. The iFrog is available for immediate purchase.

The iFrog fully supports the Bluetooth Human Interface Device (HID) profile, unlike many products that use the spam prone Serial Port (SPP) profile. Any platform that supports the HID profile (Macintosh OS X, Linux, Symbian Smartphones, most Windows Bluetooth adapters, Windows Mobile 5.0) ‘just works’ out of the box with the iFrog with no drivers to load. FrogPad is also developing HID compliant drivers with strategic partner, CC2GO, for those platforms that do not include HID support built in.

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