06-08-2009, 09:19 PM
I think the major appeal of a separate keyboard is when you go on a trip and need to do a lot of data entry. For example, I go on trips where I gather a lot of field data during the day and spend the evening typing it in and uploading it. It would be vastly faster and more pleasant to have a small keyboard in my luggage that I could enter data with than it would be using the touchscreen. The other alternative is to bring a laptop but I'd rather just carry the iPhone and keyboard.