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Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

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Post by ceejayoz »

schiffern wrote: post #258
loloquwowndueo wrote: post #197

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And giving iPhone a physical keyboard is reinventing the blackberry. Never mind that the iPhone’s mantra from the beginning has been away from the inadaptability of physical keyboards. (Watch the 2007 keynote for reference).

> Never mind that the iPhone’s official marketing line from the beginning has been... Fixed. It's an age-old sales tactic. "It's not a bug, it's a feature!"

Given everyone else fairly rapidly followed along, and still are nearly 15 years later, “feature” seems accurate.

Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

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Post by pzautke »

Back in 2010 I had an iPhone 3GS and a Blackberry Bold. I really wanted to justify using the Bold because of the professional image I associated with it. In repeated typing speed tests, I found my WPM to be essentially the same between the two. Every other aspect of the iPhone user experience was vastly better. I kept the iPhone and never looked back to phones with keyboards.

Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

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Post by obilgic »

dumpHero2 wrote: post #155
skygazer wrote: post #36

I 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…

If it gains any traction, you'd be able to get a fairly decent Temu version in about 6 months from now for $30.

Whats the verdict on temu vs aliExpress. I still find things %30 cheaper on AE while most of my orders are delivered within 6 days.

Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

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Post by richardw »

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 got an HTC TyTN once. I hated that phone so much. Keyboard slipped out, which I guess worked. It was the phone that made me religiously stick with Apple all this time.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_TyTN

Before that I had a Palm 5 PDA, which I loved. So interesting that you can add features and connectivity and still make the thing suck.

Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

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Post by rtpg »

wackget wrote: post #300

A 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…

I mean you can use bluetooth keyboards with your iphone if you wanted to.

Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

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Post by TheArcane »

paxys wrote: post #329

I doubt this thing will get anywhere, but this discussion thread is making me nostalgic about the wild times of smartphone design in the late 2000s/early 2010s. Motorola Droid. HTC Touch. Palm Pre. Nokia N900/N95/N97 and their other crazy form factors. All the different Blackberrys. Phones were sliding, folding, twisting. Then at some point everyone decided that a glass rectangle was the only way to go and that was i…

there was so much.. variety, and every time I upgraded a phone it was also a changed human-machine interaction with the hardware. Oh exciting times!

Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

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Post by richard___ »

thom wrote: post #204

It’s incredibly rare that I can type even a single sentence correctly on the iPhone. In that one it came out ‘in’ and not ‘on’ for example. In that one I typed sample not example. I got that last one right! I see the arguments from both sides but it’s a real shame the design space of smartphones has become so conservative. Such intensely personal devices deserve to be more varied. If I thought I could build some sort…

Yeah, you're the only one. It's easy to type on iphones bud

Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

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Post by JBiserkov »

oslem wrote: post #111
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.

Check out the Sony Ericsson P910that had not 1, but 2 keyboards that could be detached. https://gsmarena.com/sony_ericsson_p910-pictures-846.php
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