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Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

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Post by srge »

ant6n wrote: post #438
bevan wrote: post #434

For the creator of this product (and to any other creators launching soon): don't listen to the keyboard jockeys saying it will fail. We (commenters here) are essentially NPCs in your world. We're not your narrow target market, just some gawkers addicted to typing "news.yc..." into our browsers, maybe with nothing better to do. And although we sound confident, we really don't know if it'll fail, or take off, or pivot…

> We're not your narrow target market, just some gawkers addicted to typing "news.yc..." into our browsers... Speak for yourself. I just type "n" into the browser.

Speak for yourself, I just click on a shortcut

Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

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Post by ed_elliott_asc »

srge wrote: post #441
ant6n wrote: post #438

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> We're not your narrow target market, just some gawkers addicted to typing "news.yc..." into our browsers... Speak for yourself. I just type "n" into the browser.

Speak for yourself, I just click on a shortcut

Speak for yourself, I find myself on the site and I don’t remember clicking anything. I was scrolling the news sites and mindlessly ended up here.

Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

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Post by edwcross »

SushiHippie wrote: post #69

This made me realise how much I'd love a physical keyboard on my phone. But not like this, this is too long and I don't think one will have a pleasant typing experience with this. I thought about this one for a few minutes, but I can't think of a good way to integrate a keyboard in a smartphone case, that will give you the experience of a blackberry or similar. The slide-out ones that you could use in horizontal orie…

Maybe you're luckier with English, but having recently tested a Uniherz Titan Pocket with physical keyboard, I just realized how my "past memories" left aside many details: typing accents and special symbols is slow; the absence of auto-complete on some long words is noticeable; the lack of emojis, the lack of a numeric keypad, having 3 or 4 modifier keys (to handle case, numbers, secondary functions, etc), all of these things I got so used to in virtual keyboards... I actually missed them more than I expected. This, plus the virtually unusable screen due to the lack of remaining real estate, made me rethink my memories.

Granted, part of if is Android's fault, and part is the keyboard itself (the modifier keys in particular), but overall, it made me feel better using a touchscreen keyboard. I no longer have rose-tinted memories that make me complain so much about on-screen keyboards.

Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

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Post by SushiHippie »

SushiHippie wrote: post #134
oslem wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds to me that you just described the format of a BlackBerry! I could almost envision a clip-on (or magnetic?) keyboard that sits on top of your screen when you need it. Perhaps it could be taken off and stored on the back of your phone, much like a MagSafe battery on an iPhone.

That could work too. A keyboard that you put on top of the screen, the only thing that would need to happen is that the operating system detects this and moves the content to the top, the same way as the software keyboard. Similar to what @walterbell suggested https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38872674

I just found this galaxy keyboard cover for the S8 and the phone really adjusted to the keyboard being there, this looks like the perfect solution. Why did they stop manufacturing this for their new phones :/ Someone in the reviews also mentioned that they borked it with a Software Update.

https://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/mobile-accessories/phones/...

Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

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Post by saagarjha »

ed_elliott_asc wrote: post #442
srge wrote: post #441

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Speak for yourself, I just click on a shortcut

Speak for yourself, I find myself on the site and I don’t remember clicking anything. I was scrolling the news sites and mindlessly ended up here.

Speak for yourself, I just always have it open.

Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

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Post by BillinghamJ »

joshstrange wrote: post #127
gregsadetsky wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

the launch video says that magsafe is supported for charging (see here [0]), but that magsafe accessories (that assume a magnet on the other side...?) are not supported [0] https://youtu.be/e2n2ftM-MwI?t=443

I think they just mean wireless charging is supported but a MagSafe mount/holder won’t work because the case doesn’t have the proper MagSafe “magic” in it (that ring you see on a clear iPhone case).

It will work - the magnetic interaction happens through the plastic, just will be very slightly weaker than one with additional magnets due to the tiny gap. The video shows it mounted on a MagSafe charger
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