But the question everyone is asking is: Do they have a Dvorak version
Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone
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#72Love the idea, but its a missed opportunity - some wheels and it could have been a skateboard too.
With all seriousness, keyboard should have flipped or slid out so its more compact. I can't see that in peoples pockets.
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#73I 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…
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.
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#74I was looking around recently to see if I could find some kind of attachable physical thumb-typing keyboard / landscape phone holder combo for my Pixel, after convincing myself that my GPD Win 2 handheld computer was really, truly dead [0]. Couldn't find anything, so now I'm rather jealous of the iPhone crowd seeing this today.
[0] Can't recommend GPD products - they're just not made to last, and rely on hacked-up Windows installations to drive them. Which is a shame, because the Win 2's form-factor and cursor control scheme are basically perfect, and also seemingly unique.
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#75It 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.
the slide out could work if nothing more than to just balance the protrusion from the camera housing.
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#76What would personally sell me on a keyboard for my iPhone: getting the missing keys (home, end, arrow keys)
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#77Doesn'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?
I'd guess those patents would have expired by now. They only last 20 years, and you must file them within 12 months of a product coming to market including that invention or you forfeit the right to patent it. So any patents related to the 7000 line or earlier would have expired, and I don't see anything about this keyboard that is similar to later BB keyboards.
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#78I 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…
I hate that's its needed, but love that it exists
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#79But the question everyone is asking is: Do they have a Dvorak version
Dvorak for thumb typing?
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#80I was looking around recently to see if I could find some kind of attachable physical thumb-typing keyboard / landscape phone holder combo for my Pixel, after convincing myself that my GPD Win 2 handheld computer was really, truly dead [0]. Couldn't find anything, so now I'm rather jealous of the iPhone crowd seeing this today. [0] Can't recommend GPD products - they're just not made to last, and rely on hacked-up Wi…
One that opens down the middle like a cabinet would be fun to see. One half of the keyboard on each side. I mean, I wouldn't use it, but it would be fun to see.