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Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

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Post by stjohnswarts »

dalemhurley wrote: post #393
wannacboatmovie wrote: post #367

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This will fail not because it's not a good idea, but because the implementation is flawed. Ryan Seacrest (yes the Ryan Seacrest) bankrolled a startup 10 years ago with an almost identical product. (They were sued out of existence by an already dying BlackBerry.) I remember listening to an interview where he explained they restricted the product to smaller iPhone models because user testing showed the product didn't w…

Thank you. As soon as I read their website claiming to be “the first creator keyboard for iPhone”, I was thinking “nope, there was one blackberry sued”. Hopefully they will update their website and remove the false claim.

It's a shame that something as basic as using a keyboard with a computing device can be copyrighted/patented. It's absolutely ridiculous.

Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

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Post by stjohnswarts »

OJFord wrote: post #386
kshahkshah wrote: post #363

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Out of curiosity, what types of goods do you get from those websites?

Anything where you're actually ok with all the NEUVWY branded junk on Amazon but want it much cheaper in exchange for possibly slightly slower delivery and a horrible browsing experience.

did that with a showerhead, $80 on amazon, $30 on aliexpress, and it's actually quite well made (real metal) and seems to be great so far after a year. I'm sure there are a lot of duds though and it's caveat emptor, do at least a little research if you can find anything.

Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

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Post by 93po »

ecshafer wrote: post #527
93po wrote: post #497

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You can fix the swearing part if you google it

Having to manually white list every word you want to be able to type isn't a great solution. Androids autocorrect automatically adds words to the dictionary as you type and hit allow.

Agreed but figured I'd mention it

Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

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Post by boomskats »

madethisaccount wrote: post #233
boomskats wrote: post #50

For 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:…

Looks pretty interesting! I'd like to purchase one to repurpose my old Nokia. Do you have dimensions by any chance? Couldn't find any PM Info from your account

Ah, sorry - same handle on the big X or the other big HN-funded social network.

Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

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Post by ajsnigrutin »

babypuncher wrote: post #529
ajsnigrutin wrote: post #215

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There was a time, when we had both... but somehow android phone manufacturers stopped being inventive and stopped making different phones. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Desire_Z <- this was an android phone with a keyboard, and far from the only one.

I remember these quite well. Their Achilles' heel was durability, a recurring problem with any smartphone design that has moving parts. I think that if people kept buying these in significant enough numbers, manufacturers would still be making them.

But you're not given a choice at all. Look at sd card slots for example... cheap storage expansion, a standard not that long ago, but at one moment in time, pretty much all the flagship phones lost that feature. It wasn't an option, where you could buy a model without an sd card or one with the slot for $20 more, but the slot was gone, and the only phones with sd card slots were either old and shitty or some chinese noname store brand. Same for the headphone jack and user replacable batteries. If you wanted a fast phone with a good camera, you were stuck with either iphones, google nexus/pixel or samsungs (back then also sonys), and none of them have slots or jack ports anymore.

Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

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Post by sleepybrett »

afandian wrote: post #73
sleepybrett wrote: post #32

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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.

I’ve seen various phone keyboards over the years but never recalled one that used capacitance.

I've certainly had little stick on joysticks (suction cup) that use capacitance, they sucked. I think I remember seeing similar keyboards at the time.

Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

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Post by endofreach »

_bhrz wrote: post #457
feitingen wrote: post #453

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Speak for yourself, I don't have anything else open.

Speak for yourself, all my traffic proxies here.

Speak for yourself, i wrote a browser extension that replaces every link on any site with HN

Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

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Post by NooneAtAll3 »

ant6n wrote: post #438
bevan wrote: post #434

For 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.

you mean "h" for hackernews, right? ...right?
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