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iPhone Unnecessarily Hacked to Add Real Keyboard [IPhone]
gizmodo.com - 11/5/2008
iPhone Unnecessarily Hacked to Add Real Keyboard [IPhone]
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This guy's taken a jail-broken iPhone and hacked it by wiring it up to a genuine physical keyboard that's about as big as the phone itself. Yes... it's clever. But nononono: the beauty of the iPhone is its slender slippery sleekness, and I've found myself speeding up to darn fast text-entry ...

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— youtube.com — http://moyashi.air-nifty.com/iPhoneにキーボードをつないでみました。 (more) iPhone with Keyboard (video)

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Jailbroken iPhone Gets Keyboard
maclife.com - 11/10/2008
Jailbroken iPhone Gets Keyboard
— maclife.com — There is a way! (more) Jailbroken iPhone Gets Keyboard

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Hacker Attaches Physical Keyboard to iPhone
Wired: Gadget Lab — ... above) took that idea to the extreme and attached a physical QWERTY keyboard to his Jailbroken iPhone. Early adopters of the handset often complain about its virtual keyboard, but those concerns seem to fade away as people get a feel for it. I personally don't mind it anymore. What I really want is for Apple to let the damn keyboard flip into landscape mode for typing e-mails, notes, text messages and so forth. YouTube [via CrunchGear via Gizmodo] ...

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