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hi this is stephen skarlatos of pocketnow.com in part three of my syria red fly mobile companion video review going to take a look at the keyboard in USB functionality i'm using my verizon samsung i760 tethered to the red fly via USB k first we'll take a look at the keyboard shortcut keys on the top row we have the HOME key which defaults to the today screen the mail key which takes us to pocket outlook an explorer key which is mapped to pocket Internet Explorer an interesting set of keys are the phone call and end keys we can toggle the keypad with the left softkey however since there's no speaker or microphone in the red flag you must use your phone or a bluetooth headset to make calls hit the n key and it terminates the phone application in addition to the left and right soft keys we have an ok key and an LCD brightness up and down key will also have an external VGA control key which allows us to pick how we want the screen output directed and we have the red fly bluetooth connection key the other shortcut keys that we have are on the bottom row of the keyboard they are the Windows Start Menu key and the red flight configuration key the only keyboard shortcuts that can be customized are the home mail and web browser keys click the ok key and come back to today's screen you can also plug in flash card drives in the USB port i plugged in my lexar jumpdrive unfortunately this is the only kind of USB accessory that works with the red fly which is really too bad you can bring up file explorer and choose removable drive to view your files the red fly also allows you to use keyboard pneumonic characters to access menu items the pneumonic characters are the underlying characters in each menu item if you want to bring up explorer you hit the start key and then the i key and Puckett explorer comes up now bring up word to show you how we can use the keyboard to select text using the shift key and we can also use ctrl c ctrl x ctrl v like we do on a pc for copy cut and paste although tight for my fat fingers I found the keyboard easy to use in touch typing mode the predictive text functionality is the one that's built into the i760 and it displays on the red flies screen but I find that more of a nuisance since I have to use the arrow keys to select the appropriate word well that does it for today's review and I'll be back with my conclusion and my final thoughts post on pocket now