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Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

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Post by drakonka » Thu, Jan 04, 2024, 10:34 PM UTC

porsager wrote: post #141

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.

It doesn't even need to be physical - You should definitely give Type Nine a try ( https://typenineapp.com ) - (disclaimer - I'm the author). There are some promo codes below so you can try it out: I've used this since 2014 when I made the first version, and I have yet to meet anyone typing faster with the stock iPhone qwerty keyboard. 7AMYNPKN63KY EMMHTLRA9399 Y4TPAXMJFHLL 4F3Y4JJ3RHME YREJF6L4TYE7 KWM9LRRXJEXW Y6JJ…

This looks great! I'd try it for sure if I was on iPhone. Do you have any plans to release this for Android as well at some point?

Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

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Post by cududa » Thu, Jan 04, 2024, 10:34 PM UTC

happyopossum wrote: post #164

cududa wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think magsafe is strong enough to support the entire phone on a keyboard

MagSafe supports my 'entire phone' bouncing around in my truck, and hanging on my headboard at night - it's more than strong enough to hold a phone to a keyboard.

Fair and good point!

Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jan 04, 2024, 10:36 PM UTC

pb7 wrote: post #123

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…

>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.

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Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

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Post by dannyw » Thu, Jan 04, 2024, 10:37 PM UTC

pb7 wrote: post #123

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…

>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.

Different people use devices in different ways.

My phone is 80% emails, Slack, iMessage, Discord; 15% Google Maps, Uber, or Safari, and 5% YouTube.

To each their own, but I realised content consumption is a seriously net negative on my happiness, productivity, and satisfaction with life, so I stopped.

Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

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Post by valianteffort » Thu, Jan 04, 2024, 10:38 PM UTC

devmor wrote: post #132

valianteffort wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

That wouldn't be very comfortable at all

Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

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Post by nerdponx » Thu, Jan 04, 2024, 10:39 PM UTC

RHSeeger wrote: post #34

dqv wrote: post #16

It was supposed to be a joke! Not inspiration! https://i.redd.it/g8o4nu49rfz51.jpg I like having a physical keyboard, but not like this... it makes the phone too long. A slide out is preferred. I'm just going to stick with a regular bluetooth keyboard.

I would love to a Droid 2 style keyboard for my phone http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/wireless/detail-page/mo...

Bring back the Sidekick!

Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

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Post by amelius » Thu, Jan 04, 2024, 10:39 PM UTC

I'd prefer a keyboard that covers part of the screen (and interoperates with the OS to mark that part of the screen unused), and operates over Bluetooth or the USB-C connector in the bottom.

Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

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Post by InCityDreams » Thu, Jan 04, 2024, 10:40 PM UTC

I_Am_Nous wrote: post #131

>Being first has its perks: >Special founder's badge >Serial number >Exclusive VIP support 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?

>>Exclusive VIP support

You pay extra to be a beta tester for the plebs that follow?

Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

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Post by spiderice » Thu, Jan 04, 2024, 10:43 PM UTC

porsager wrote: post #141

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.

It doesn't even need to be physical - You should definitely give Type Nine a try ( https://typenineapp.com ) - (disclaimer - I'm the author). There are some promo codes below so you can try it out: I've used this since 2014 when I made the first version, and I have yet to meet anyone typing faster with the stock iPhone qwerty keyboard. 7AMYNPKN63KY EMMHTLRA9399 Y4TPAXMJFHLL 4F3Y4JJ3RHME YREJF6L4TYE7 KWM9LRRXJEXW Y6JJ…

Looks awesome! I've missed t9 typing ever since I got my first smart phone. I just bought your keyboard.

Question: When I try to type the word "a" (by pressing the ABC key then space) it defaults to "c". Will it relearn that I actually want to type "a" if I correct it enough? No idea why it's defaulting to "c".

Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

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Post by dabluecaboose » Thu, Jan 04, 2024, 10:44 PM UTC

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.

Sounds like what you're looking for is the Qin F22 Pro[1]

It's got a cult following among dumbphone and dumb-er-phone enthusiasts (think Lightphone, Punkt, etc) and has personally tempted me, but I'm put off by it being a Xiaomi product and haven't been able to decide if that hardware is safe enough for me to consider using after a ROM swap.

[1] https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256804386537909.html?gateway...