crunchgear.com - 11/5/2008
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This hack adds a third-party mini-keyboard to the iPhone, effectively turning Cupertino’s darling into a Compaq iPaq circa 2001. Does the iPhone really need a keyboard, people?
After using the iPhone for a little over a year, I find that the onscreen keyboard is intuitive and useful. The ...
iphonebuzz.com - 11/10/2008
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iphonebuzz.com —
Shortly after we see the first iPhone keyboard
, another one surfaces. This one is far less...
attractive and seemingly less portable. The advantage this one has over the other is Bluetooth connectivity. The one we recently reported came potable ...
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iPhone gets Bluetooth mini-keyboard
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iPhone Unnecessarily Hacked to Add Real Keyboard [IPhone]
Gizmodo —
... 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 rates using the virtual keyboard. This mod is like strapping a paddlewheel to a dolphin: bulky, old-fashioned and unnecessary. [Crunchgear] ...
iPhone gets physical keyboard in some form
iPhone Buzz —
... One of the major issues that iPhone haters bring up when trying to put it down, is the onscreen keyboard. A lot of people just don’t adapt to it very well. It appears that this may not be as strong of an argument as it once was with a new 3rd party add-on keyboard. ...
Hacker Attaches Physical Keyboard to iPhone
Wired: Gadget Lab —
... 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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iPhone Hardware Keyboard Not Much Better Than Software
Cult of Mac —
... this afternoon, and after my initial excited clicking all I can say is “Oh.”
Because it really isn’t a proper keyboard, it’s a tiny clip on thing that does little more than recreate the built-in software keyboard in plastic. The typing’s slow, and all thumbs anyhow.
I know I’ve been banging on about iPhones and keyboards recently, but this? This is not what I was banging on about.
Wait, what? Barack who?
(Via CrunchGear)
Video fortells future iPhone role
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence —
... What you see here is a fairly interesting video (btw, thanks Crunkgear). Someone has hacked a real keyboard onto an iPhone. Cool right? ...
iPhone gets physical keyboard in some form
Top iPhone News —
... One of the major issues that iPhone haters bring up when trying to put it down, is the onscreen keyboard. A lot of people just don’t adapt to it very well. It appears that this may not be as strong of an argument as it once was with a new 3rd party add-on keyboard. ...
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iphonebuzz.com 1/5/2009 — For a certain need, I think this "mainstream approach" keyboard for the iPhone or iPod Touch is helpful. "If you want to get a bit more typing done with a bit less cluttter, you'll no doubt be quite a bit more impressed," as Engadget wrote .
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blosmo.com 1/19/2009 — New-keyboard I've been planning this for a while now, and I've finally finished. My Apple keyboard concept turned out pretty well. It adds an induction charge and sync on the right hand side for an iPhone or iPod and six programable OLED keys much ...
Apple wireless keyboard used with an iPhone
ubiqkom.org 2/23/2009 — Here is a short video showing the interacting devices (Apple wireless keyboard, iPhone, communicating over Bluetooth) in operation.
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Eee keyboard PC (video)
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Games a runaway hit on iPhone and iPod touch —
Apple Hot News 11/3/2008
“Within days of buying his iPhone, John Furrier discovered that his 13-year-old son, Alec, was sneaking off with the device and downloading games.” Alec’s not the only one. “Games,” reports Alex Pham (latimes.com), ”have become the fastest-growing and ...
Games Ringing a Bell for iPhone Users —
Apple 11/4/2008
Within days of buying his iPhone, John Furrier's 13-year-old son, Alec, was sneaking off with the device and downloading games. To reclaim his phone, Furrier had to buy his son an iPod Touch, which Alec quickly filled with Pac-Man, Magic 8 Ball and ...
Appiphilia casts light on iPhone apps —
Apple Hot News 11/5/2008
“Because iPhone apps seem to multiply with every click,” Michelle Maltais (latimes.com) offers a new weekly series for those with “an irresistible urge to download iPhone applications.” Called appiphilia, the new LA Times column “highlights and ...
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