Steve Jobs must be rolling in his grave lol. iPhones have been getting bigger and you still want more screen space? Why not just get a iPad with an external keyboard at this point if you're such a "content creator"?
Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone
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#342This again reminded me what a struggle it is to use the iOS keypad on my iPhone 14. I don’t what they got wrong. My fingers aren’t big either. I never face this on android phones of similar size or even smaller (back in the day).
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#343Wish they give it for android. Because there will be more phones which are small as well. It will be great thing which I wished for a long time since htc made one. Blackberry is gone. And one company that makes qwerty keyboard phone is way expensive from UK to order
Smaller phones were killed by us. The majority of us.
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#344Earlier quoted context omitted.
The slide out horizontal form factor is so obviously superior, I’m scratching my head wondering why people are so nostalgic for blackberry keyboards.
Vertical keyboard allows using the phone with one hand.
Also landscape results in either lots of wasted screen space or hard to read text. FOr text you want tall and narrow(ish), not ultra wide.
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#345I wrote a little bit about why I still long for physical keyboards on phones here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37713211
My personal workaround is to have a Bluetooth keyboard + iPad or Lenovo X1C laptop with me at most times (in a backpack), which isn't ideal. But neither is this "Clicks" product :)
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#346I 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 land…
It'd be nice if the keyboard could flip backwards or slide away seamlessly.
So many folks insisted that touchscreen keyboards were a fad, and everyone would come back to keyboards sooner or later.
I knew they were wrong, but I figured there would at least be a permanent market for some 5% minority who needed their chiclet keyboards. Wrong!
Honestly surprised that a device took so long to come to market… I’m not making any predictions this time.
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#347I really want a programmer-friendly physical keyboard for Android phones, which is suitable to holding (not needing resting on a table). I've got a Pixel 3 right now, but I'd be willing to change phones if one worked very well with a physical keyboard. Or maybe I just have to buy one of those GPD Win 4 devices, or the Ayaneo Slide...
I've tried all kinds of portable physical keyboards but for programming on android you can't beat Hackers Keyboard https://github.com/klausw/hackerskeyboard
I've got a fork working with Android 14
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#348A question I always ask is why we can't control our phones via desktop computers yet. It's 2024; this should be possible and mainstream without half-baked solutions like Airdroid or unacceptable workarounds like rooting your iPhone. I sit in front of a full-size keyboard and mouse literally all day, yet when I need to do something on my phone I'm forced to physically pick it up and use its horrible tiny little keyboa…
My question is, why can't we use our phones as a fully dockable PC? For years, all I've wanted was a phone with computer specs that I can plug into a dock and use with a fully functional desktop operating system. Usually what ends up happening is you just have the same clumsy phone but on a giant monitor. The 15 promax is more than capable of doing this, but iOS is the limitation from a usability standpoint. Can't ev…
Android's had a number of attempts at that, the biggest one being Samsung DeX, but it's just not a mass market product, like mini cellphones or unsmart TVs.
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#349I would buy this if it had a sliding keyboard. I'd better wait for cheaper versions that will likely imitate this feature.
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#350Strange choice to make this portrait instead of landscape.
If I'm going through the trouble of attaching a hardware keyboard, I want the largest size that's still practical.
A landscape keyboard of the same type might even be possible to type on with ten fingers. Which seems like it would be a massive productivity boost for many people.
This is just a hardware version of the standard iOS keyboard. I doubt that the benefits of having physical keys are worth the trouble.