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Are they implying you get a low serial number as an early adopter, or are they going to stop putting serial numbers on future hardware?
Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone
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#132Would 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 think the camera bumps kind of prevent this without turning the phone into a literal brick. Would have to be more like a clamshell/folio type case like with the iPads. That said the keyboard in OP looks so unbelievably fucking stupid and impractical I can't understand how it made it to production.
Doesn't have to cover the entire back of the camera. Just needs to use magsafe to attach.
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#133What on earth is a "creator keyboard"?
That was my initial thought as well.
The "creator" pitch and visuals immediately turned me off. It gave me the impression that this was kind of a gimmicky thing intended for an audience the polar opposite of what I would want.
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#134This 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.
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
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#135This 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…
I think a sideways one would be most ergonomic, like a Backbone (https://playbackbone.com/products/backbone-one/) but with keyboard keys. Actually iOS supports a split style keyboard as well: https://www.lifewire.com/thmb/gSGW1OzKc1r6QWfVYO7g0rdfXuw=/1...
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#136I really want to love this. I’ve been asking for something like it for years. I feel like I’d also need a low-mounted popsocket, or I can already feel my pinkies breaking from the weight supporting this.
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#137What on earth is a "creator keyboard"?
It's for "content creators", which is the modern way of saying "people who post shit on the Internet"
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#138Steve Jobs probably rolling in his grave seeing this lol
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#139For anyone interested in something closer to the feel of the original Bold keyboard, the Fairberry[0] uses the keyboard from the BB Q10, which is excellent and can be had for about $5 a piece. They can look pretty decent[1][2] and are more easily removed. If anyone wants one PM me, I'll mail you a couple. I've got like 30 of them. [0]: https://github.com/Dakkaron/Fairberry [1]: https://imgur.com/a/wYub8JD [2]: https:…
Would it work on an iphone if the USB is adapted? I'm curious on getting one of these to work.
I've not tried it, but if you check out the mainboard Readme [0] it mentions the possibility of a lightning port connector. I assume OTG is how the product OP linked to works too.
[0]: https://github.com/Dakkaron/Fairberry/blob/main/Documentatio...
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#140This 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…
>you would have a superior typing experience Would you? I don’t think so. All to permanently lose 30%+ of your usual screen space on a device that you likely use to consume 90% of the time and input 10% of the time.
I don't consume anything on my phone that would require that much vertical space, except occasionally a video someone sent me. And the touch keyboard bugs me so much that I really wouldn't care about losing ~1/3 of the screen.