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tuaw.com - 3/24/2009

iPhone external keyboard without jailbreaking

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Check this out, folks. Some enterprising young hackers have got an IR keyboard working with a non-jailbroken iPhone . With nothing more than $20US worth of parts and the iPhone 2.0 SDK, they built an adapter for the headphone port that talks with a modified version of the audio port modem ...

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perceptdev.com - 3/24/2009

iPhone Keyboard - no Jailbreaking required, using 2.0 SDK

— perceptdev.com — A number of industrious individuals have achieved what to some is the holy grail of iPhone accessories:... an iPhone keyboard. But most have done it in a very hard-to-repeat manner, and few have shared the methods they used. Expanding on their audio ... (more) iPhone Keyboard - no Jailbreaking required, using 2.0 SDK

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youtube.com - 3/24/2009

Eee keyboard PC (video)

— youtube.com — http://www.umpcportal.com/?p=6448 The ASUS keyboard PC. Full netbook specs built into a keyboard with 5" touchscreen.... (more) Eee keyboard PC (video)

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i.gizmodo.com - 3/24/2009

Hackers Add External IR Keyboard to iPhone Without Jailbreaking [IPhone Hacks]

— i.gizmodo.com — Even though it's still a bit more intensive than plugging in and typing, the tweakers at Perceptive... Development have managed to get an external keyboard working via a custom connection built for the headphone jack. It's a progression of their ... (more) Hackers Add External IR Keyboard to iPhone Without ...

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Hackers Add External IR Keyboard to iPhone Without Jailbreaking [IPhone Hacks]
Gizmodo — ... a world of electronics components cheaply and easily, and the headphone jack in/out hardware is one of the few interfaces that's open in the official SDK. Here they've built a microcontroller that converts input from an external Targus IR keyboard into a format the iPhone's headphone jack can understand, which is then fed to a terminal app that doesn't require jailbreak. Pretty cool. [Perceptive Development via TUAW] ...

VIDEO: Keyboard working on Non-Jailbroken iPhone
Apple Gazette — ... This video above from TUAW is supposedly from a non-jail broken iPhone. There appears to be a small debate about whether that is actually true or not…but to me, it doesn’t really matter. I’m just glad to see an external keyboard working on the iPhone. ...