Want my Google G1 back :-)
Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone
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Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone
#472It's kind of weird to me that it starts from $139, a price range where you can buy a 65% Keychron mech keyboard[1], _and_ stuff like the Pinephone Keyboard[2]. The latter is not exactly comparable, since its more like a mini-keyboard stuck into a mini-sized case, but I still feel like $139 is a lot for something that you can't use beyond a single generation of a device. Maybe if it was modular and you could take out the keyboard from the case for easy upgradibility or something, the price could be justified?
[1]: https://www.keychron.com/products/keychron-k7-ultra-slim-wir... [2]: https://pine64.com/product/pinephone-pinephone-pro-keyboard-...
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#474For anyone interested in something closer to the feel of the original Bold keyboard, the Fairberry[0] uses the keyboard from the BB Q10, which is excellent and can be had for about $5 a piece. They can look pretty decent[1][2] and are more easily removed. 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:…
There's no PM function on HN, but I'm interested.
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#475I would be more down if it wasn’t tied to the generation of phone.
Also I’d love a keyboard with more buttons personally. I know I’m in a tiny minority here but I get ~70 WPM on an iPhone keyboard but if I have to do symbols or anything it goes down to like 4.
I know you can buy a separate Bluetooth keyboard but then you need to rest your phone and stuff.
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#476Earlier quoted context omitted.
There’s a bit of a trope that people who want hardware keyboards in the era of touchscreens are idiots. I’m one of them. There’s a huge number, and therefore diversity of mobile users. Some of us have different preferences to the mainstream. I feel crippled typing on my iPhone. It takes ages to type and correct messages. I often can’t get my pass code right first time. And I remember that typing was never an issue on…
> There’s a bit of a trope that people who want hardware keyboards in the era of touchscreens are idiots. To be clear, I wasn't implying that in the slightest. I was just curious if folks who say they prefer physical keyboards have tried swipe typing. I didn't really like "tap on glass" typing either, but once I got used to swipe typing it was a "I'll never go back" moment for me.
Sorry it seemed that way, it wasn’t aimed at your reply. Personally I’ve tried both swiping and tapping. I feel out of control with both. FWIW, I had to make 7 corrections typing this comment.
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#477For the creator of this product (and to any other creators launching soon): don't listen to the keyboard jockeys saying it will fail. We (commenters here) are essentially NPCs in your world. We're not your narrow target market, just some gawkers addicted to typing "news.yc..." into our browsers, maybe with nothing better to do. And although we sound confident, we really don't know if it'll fail, or take off, or pivot…
> We're not your narrow target market, just some gawkers addicted to typing "news.yc..." into our browsers... Speak for yourself. I just type "n" into the browser.
I just go back to the already opened HN tab :)
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#478Wouldn’t it make more sense to trade thickness instead of height for a physical keyboard? A horizontal layout attached on the back of the device that you can slide.
I still miss my N900 keyboard…
Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone
#479Wouldn’t it make more sense to trade thickness instead of height for a physical keyboard? A horizontal layout attached on the back of the device that you can slide. I still miss my N900 keyboard…
Oh I definitely miss the N900 keyboard! That was awesome!
The OS, on the other hand, not so much. I remember it slowing down (after ~2 years? Maybe 3) where if someone called me, it took roughly 30s for the phone to get responsive again so that I could accept the call. It was cool to run Linux on it though :)
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#480Earlier quoted context omitted.
If this somehow incorporated the RIM Trackball as well somehow I'd already have ordered it. I have some real life nostalgia for Blackberry keyboards.
I used one a few years back and it felt like magic in my hands. It was surreal to think how functional and efficient old tech was, yet we totally left it behind for something objectively worse. I get why we did, but wow, those were so much nicer to type on than a cold, flat, non-tactile surface. Despite that, modern screens have become remarkably accurate and responsive. Autocorrect is pretty good and makes up for a…
Everyone is different. I can type 10x faster on a touchscreen keyboard (on a phone). I remember being issued a Blackberry at work after iPhones had firmly established themselves and being horrified about how slowly I had to type. Keep in mind I'd had numerous Blackberries before and was generally happy with them, but coming back to having to depress a physical chiclet combined with less reliable autocorrect = endless frustration.
I don't begrudge pro-keyboard people their position, of course. It's a perfectly sensible preference (to the extent it's even my place to judge)!