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Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

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Post by abathur »

dqv wrote: post #37
iddan wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Slide out, now that’s a 2000s throw back!

I want to throw it back even further to a Sidekick honestly. I never got to experience having one and I'd love a modern phone that flips open like the Sidekick does.

Same, though I did have a Sidekick (2008).

I've never stopped missing it. Every time I start trying to ~swipe some technical term that the keyboard won't get unless I've added it previously. Every time I type 'n' instead of a space. And more.

I was perusing the patents a few weeks ago and noting that some of them are coming up (but some were a few years out).

Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

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Post by gjsman-1000 »

bsimpson wrote: post #41
breitling wrote: post #29

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?

Apparently so: https://www.theverge.com/2015/6/1/8696991/blackberry-typo-ke... Our patent system is so absurd. How can BlackBerry own the concept of using a keyboard with a touchscreen?

Two patents were at play: D685,775, and 7,629,964. (http://ia600308.us.archive.org/35/items/gov.uscourts.cand.27...)

D685,775 expires in 2027. Whether it's relevant, only a lawyer can say. (https://patents.google.com/patent/USD685775S1/en)

7,629,964 expired in 2018. (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7629964B2/en)

Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

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Post by roughly »

RHSeeger wrote: post #34
dqv wrote: post #16

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...

Man, the droid is still my favorite mobile device I’ve ever owned. Such a great form factor, and felt super cyberpunk - especially the droid 1 in the early days of smart phones. Shame Jony Ive won the design war, it’s all been flat black rectangles since then.

Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

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Post by valianteffort »

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 think the camera bumps kind of prevent this without turning the phone into a literal brick. Would have to be more like a clamshell/folio type case like with the iPads.

That said the keyboard in OP looks so unbelievably fucking stupid and impractical I can't understand how it made it to production.

Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

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Post by zyang »

TaylorAlexander wrote: post #58
zyang wrote: post #26

I have a feeling this is going to get bent in my pocket and damage the charging port. A desk stand with integrated keyboard would have been better.

Does it interface with the charge port? This image doesn't show a charge plug. https://assets-global.website-files.com/6571c5a614be2a1a6376...

Yes it's in the video. Part of the pitch is "no bluetooth just plugs into your charging port".

Re: Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

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Post by SushiHippie »

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 orientation are probably the best way I know of, but I wish something similar could be feasible in vertical orientation.

EDIT: I just realised that the coolest way would be, if the phone display is only as large as the current phones minus the keyboard, and then a physical keyboard beneath it. The phone would be physically as large as the phones today and you would have a superior typing experience. Only problem would be watching videos or images which are all either 16:9 or 21:9 (or vice versa). And I'd personally trade the screen size for a physical keyboard

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