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.
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Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone
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#32I recently bought Samsung Galaxy add on keyboard, on a whim, to see if it would work with my iPhone. It sits over the screen where the onscreen keyboard is situated. On eBay it said “Bluetooth” but had no obvious signs of charging. Didn’t work with the iPhone. Next hypothesis was something clever with NFC. Nope. Zero electronics. The reverse of the PCB has pads that fit over regions on the screen. On the front of the…
My guess is 'you didn't look hard enough' or 'there were some but noone bothered to buy them and everyone stopped making them'. I was an avid sidekicker until the iphone2. I might have (lo 15 years ago) been interested in a slide out horizontal keyboard case for the iphone. Never happened, adapted and now with 'slide' keyboards never going back to chicklets.
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#34It 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
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#35I recently bought Samsung Galaxy add on keyboard, on a whim, to see if it would work with my iPhone. It sits over the screen where the onscreen keyboard is situated. On eBay it said “Bluetooth” but had no obvious signs of charging. Didn’t work with the iPhone. Next hypothesis was something clever with NFC. Nope. Zero electronics. The reverse of the PCB has pads that fit over regions on the screen. On the front of the…
So it's basically a membrane keyboard with plungers hitting the "contacts" which are the keys on the touchscreen?
My first concern would be tolerances - enough press to feel good, but not so far that you have to press too hard. Too short and you might accidentally press keys you didn't mean to.
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#36I both love this and am horrified. It looks like it'd turn a Pro Max into a 9 inch tall phone. Since it's a case, you'd need a new one each phone upgrade. (I used to do this with the Apple battery cases, until I came to my senses and/or magsafe.) Although, I still occasionally long for the blind accuracy of the old Blackberry keyboard.
I think I'd prefer an adjustable magsafe attached keyboard that can do either landscape or portrait, though. Sadly, I don't see ctrl, alt or arrow keys. SSH won't benefit as much.
All that said, if this were $50, I'd already have ordered it.
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#37It 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.
Slide out, now that’s a 2000s throw back!
I want to throw it back even further to a Sidekick honestly. I never got to experience having one and I'd love a modern phone that flips open like the Sidekick does.
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#38I wonder if there is room for a battery behind the keyboard?
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#39Disappointing (but understandable) that this is not available for my 14 Pro Max.
Someone should just(TM) take the mechanism from a pinching phone holder (like [1] ), add the Bluetooth keyboard at the bottom, and make a universal phone keyboard extension...
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#40The proportions compared to a classic blackberry seem terrible for typing ergonomics. With a Blackberry, the overall device is closer to a square and the keyboard is basically the bottom half of the device. With the case, the keyboard is like the bottom 20% and it seems like the weight of the rest of the phone would be constantly trying to leverage it out of your grasp, especially since blackberries were like half as…
Marketing would say: enhanced tactile feedback