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Doesn't BlackBerry have a patent for this? Ryan Seacrest had started a iPhone physical keyboard company, Typo I think, and got sued so bad he abandoned the whole thing. How will these people get around it?
Our patent system is so absurd. How can BlackBerry own the concept of using a keyboard with a touchscreen?
I feel like this is going to be ridiculously top heavy.
I 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.
As someone who grew up with the Blackjack and Sidekick phones I like this. I'll nitpick on a marketed scenario though: > Launch Spotlight > cmd + space Cool that there's a keyboard but this is more easily done by just dragging the home screen down. There are probably more powerful hotkey combos they can pick for the marketing here.
Those are the standard shortcuts all keyboards get, meant for keyboards on iPads that also work on iPhones and thus work here.
Really the only thing stopping me is that this doesn't also include a touch sensitive volume rocker that would scroll the screen for me. That would really reiterate that focus on 'not touching the screen'. I know that's not something anyone has every developed before, nor is it something anyone promised. But it is both super feasible, and seems like a really killer feature, so if I'm buying a luxury item, I'd like it to have every feature I'm looking for instead of just most of them. Again, if an iPhone were my daily driver, that calculus would be different.
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...
Although - good luck getting one. And once you have one, it's just OK. Missing some fit and finish both in hardware and software.
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://imgur.com/a/DLhlY7m