External keyboards are popular accessories with many smartphone users, and we often receive email from people looking for the right keyboard to add to this smartphone or that.  One of the products we’ve recommended for some time, the Freedom Bluetooth Keyboard, remains a popular choice for Windows Mobile users.

But what about Android smartphones?  Is there an external keyboard for the newest members of the smartphone club? 

There are ways to use standard Bluetooth keyboards – whether designed with smartphones in mind or not – with Android devices, but designed-for-Android keyboards are still pretty much no-shows.  But Freedom’s latest mobile keyboard, the Freedom Pro, will be among the first to get Android support, a move which is expected next month.

So if you’ve been pondering adding a fold-out keyboard to your Droid or CLIQ, the wait should be short.

(The Freedom Pro Bluetooth Keyboard already supports Windows Mobile 5.x-6.x devices, BlackBerry OS 4.0+ and Symbian 60 and UIQ3 smartphones.)