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No problem! That's what these forums are for!
I haven't actually timed a charge - but I think the first one took 3 -4 hours. Then I made the mistake of turning the keyboard off whenever I wasn't using it. The charge lasted 3 days. I read in the forums that you should leave it on all the time - so I charged it again and this time just left the keyboard on. That charge lasted about 30 days. I couldn't believe the difference. So I've had it since March 23rd - and have charged it a total of 3 times including that first one.
The charging port is on the side so yes you can close the case while you charge it. My only gripe is that the same isn't true of the playbook - you have to have the case open to charge the pb in the case.05-23-12 09:24 PM - 30 day thats nice to hear, I was thinking 1 week would be good 2 week would be great, finally dawned on me yesterday to look for a YouTube vid and found a couple that showed the keyboard close up and demonstrated it's use, based on your feedback and what I seen on the vids I've gone ahead and order one, thanks, the first couple of weeks the on screen keyboard didn't bother me to much but the longer I have the playbook the more typing I'm doing and I'm not enjoying it, I think the separate keyboard will be answer for me, I didn't want to jump in feet first and spend half the price of the playbook without knowing how useful it would be, I really appreciate your input.No problem! That's what these forums are for!
I haven't actually timed a charge - but I think the first one took 3 -4 hours. Then I made the mistake of turning the keyboard off whenever I wasn't using it. The charge lasted 3 days. I read in the forums that you should leave it on all the time - so I charged it again and this time just left the keyboard on. That charge lasted about 30 days. I couldn't believe the difference. So I've had it since March 23rd - and have charged it a total of 3 times including that first one.
The charging port is on the side so yes you can close the case while you charge it. My only gripe is that the same isn't true of the playbook - you have to have the case open to charge the pb in the case.
The case I have now it the same way, needs to be open to charge when using the original charger but will partial close with the fast charger, I'll cross my fingers and hop this is true for the keyboard case, if you don't have the fast charger you should really consider it, much nicer, just get the lead within 1/4 of an inch and it snaps home much better than trying to line up that little usb connector.
I have a funny story about charging, my son was home for a few day and we were downstairs in the workshop tinkering, I had the playbook on the workbench charging and the little cat you see as my avatar was downstairs with us, all of a sudden we could hear voices, when we went to investigate the cat was sitting there nice as you please watching a YouTube vid of a little dear running around a field, there was no apps running when I put it on charge, he likes to wonder around my workbench looking for potential toys and he must have just stepped in the right spots on the screen, it realty was funny as h*ll, I would have liked to get a vid of it but I couldn't because the cat was using my playbook.
Thanks very much for the input and the help.05-24-12 07:31 AM - I don't know if they still have them but I purchased mine online through staples it was $34.99 then when I went to the check out the shipping was going to be $15 because the order was under $50 dollars, I thought p*ss on that I went back and ordered two for $70, free shipping, said to my wife that's to good to be true I wonder how long they'll take to come, that was 6 pm, 7 am the next morning the courier was banging on the door and I had two fast chargers, one for my workshop downstairs , one for the upstairs, and keep the original in the vehicle, worked out great.That's too cute! Lol
The rapid charger is going to be my next purchase.
You should check if I remember correctly they could only be ordered online.05-24-12 08:38 AM - Keyboard came yesterday and it's great, nice to have letters and numbers all in one place, makes typing much more pleasant, type out a document quickly pop up the on screen keyboard go through the spelling and done, and being a DOS Dinosaur love the cut, copy, paste, keyboard shortcuts, wish ctrl + F worked in browser.
Nice to have the little touch pad makes it much easier browsing on the net to click a small link or to close a pop up with them d*m small little x's on youtube.
Money well spent unlike some of the app's I've purchased05-26-12 06:48 AM - Did you order yours from shopcrackberry?Uhm, I ordered one after you, may 5th and it just shipped the other day, above has my post about it, might want to dig a little deeper about yours lol
That is interesting... I ordered mine on April 9th and am still waiting too.I ordered on April 12 and am still waiting. Looking forward to the new keyboard...
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