[rwmj]

External bluetooth keyboard makes it bearable.

Keyboards vary to the extent that they are emacs friendly (how many Super-Meta-Alt keys do they have?) but I find this Logitech one just about usable for programming:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Logitech-Device-Bluetooth-Keyboard-S...

(In case it's not clear, the keyboard is huge, as large as a laptop keyboard, so once you start down this road you lose portability).

[desipenguin]

Once you lose portability, why not just use "real" computer ;) (I mean laptop) Entering text of smallish screen is only meant for small amount of text (a tiny note etc.)

[rwmj]

I'm not going to disagree with you :-) However I do also have a sort of compromise, which is my Nexus 9 with the folio keyboard. It folds up into something similar to the size and weight of a paperback book. It's not-so-bad for ssh (I wouldn't really want to program with it), one thing missing would be good key mappings to deal with my odd choice of 'screen' settings.

Photo here: https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2015/01/08/nexus-9-ssh-on-the-go/...