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Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

#11
I wonder how this would feel in hand, grip seems to have unbalanced weight when I mimic on my iPhone pro max 11. Like it wants to tip over but maybe if you really have something physical at the bottom it is not that bad.

Blackberry sacrificed screen for the keyboard so balance was all OK.

I also caught myself thinking these buttons were too round and too tiny as compared to my on-screen keyboard. Also not having the luxury of seeing all my special characters appear on the keys when pressing the 123/#+= etc to toggle keyboards would be something to get used to. E.g. Type a {} or ~.

Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

#15
post #3

Women’s hands in every image yet a man’s face everywhere. Just a little on the nose. Obviously I am not the target demographic but I am interested to see where this goes.

The second photo of a person on the page is of a women holding the phone and you can see her face.

Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

#18
As someone who grew up with the Blackjack and Sidekick phones I like this. I'll nitpick on a marketed scenario though:

> Launch Spotlight

> cmd + space

Cool that there's a keyboard but this is more easily done by just dragging the home screen down. There are probably more powerful hotkey combos they can pick for the marketing here.

Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

#19
Is the idea that you always have this on, making your phone much longer (and potentially more unbalanced) than it was before, or that you keep it around for when you want to text? Seems like you always want to keep it on because you have to hook it up to the port, but you're adding a fair bit of length to the phone.

I generally enjoy Mr Mobile's reviews, but I just don't know about this product.

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