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Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

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Post by oslem »

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…

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.

Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

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Post by yungporko »

huytersd wrote: post #86
drakonka wrote: post #81

What I want is a physical smartphone keyboard with nine keys. The one with three letters per key. I've never been faster and more accurate at typing on my phone than when these were a thing. I have pretty small hands, but even for me those full-size mini-keyboards are too imprecise to make them much better than a touch keyboard.

I don’t believe you. There’s no way you type faster with up to three taps needed per letter. What a disgusting monstrosity those things were.

i'd say predictive text/t9 was way faster than any other phone input method ever for texting. nothing else comes close imo, not even blackberry keyboards (unless you need more fine control over capitalisation and punctuation and stuff e.g work emails)

Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

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Post by drudoo »

tomasreimers wrote: post #56

Would seriously consider buying this if it were a case with a back-sliding landscape keyboard. Something like: https://www.cnet.com/a/img/resize/fd8703ad0b0ec545ac98701c39...

I had this as a case for the iPhone 4 (or 5S, can’t remember). Was amazing but very bulky.

Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

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Post by elzbardico »

I solved this issue by getting a 13" macbook air as my second computer. It is small and lightweight enough to be comfortable to use as a personal browsing and communication device in the situations where you'd probably be using your phone and trying to type too much on it like long group chats with friends. it is the ultimate portable typing machine for me when I don't want to be bound to a desk.

Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

poyu wrote: post #96
huytersd wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don’t believe you. There’s no way you type faster with up to three taps needed per letter. What a disgusting monstrosity those things were.

I could easily type blindly on those, the Nokia days

If the claim is

> I've never been faster and more accurate at typing on my phone than when these were a thing.

It's easy to believe the accuracy claim (after all, you can feel the keys and there's fewer of them) while doubting the speed claim (since you have to perform 1-3x the number of keypresses to get the same result).

Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

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Post by walterbell »

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…

> the coolest way would be, if the phone display is only as large as the current phones minus the keyboard, and then a physical keyboard beneath it. The phone would be physically as large as the phones today and you would have a superior typing experience.

iOS Reachability, but pinned to top of display?

https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/use-reachability-iph1...

Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

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Post by xpe »

elzbardico wrote: post #114

I solved this issue by getting a 13" macbook air as my second computer. It is small and lightweight enough to be comfortable to use as a personal browsing and communication device in the situations where you'd probably be using your phone and trying to type too much on it like long group chats with friends. it is the ultimate portable typing machine for me when I don't want to be bound to a desk.

You whip out your Air during social occasions for some quick texting?

Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

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Post by [deleted] »

huytersd wrote: post #86
drakonka wrote: post #81

What I want is a physical smartphone keyboard with nine keys. The one with three letters per key. I've never been faster and more accurate at typing on my phone than when these were a thing. I have pretty small hands, but even for me those full-size mini-keyboards are too imprecise to make them much better than a touch keyboard.

I don’t believe you. There’s no way you type faster with up to three taps needed per letter. What a disgusting monstrosity those things were.

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