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iPhone with Keyboard (video)
youtube.com - 11/5/2008
iPhone with Keyboard (video)
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Gizmodo:  iPhone Unnecessarily Hacked to Add Real Keyboard [IPhone]

Apple Eclectic:  Add a Real Keyboard to Your iPhone

Wired: Gadget Lab:  Hacker Attaches Physical Keyboard to iPhone

iPhone Hacks:  Hacked iPhone Gets Physical Keyboard

Cult of Mac:  iPhone Hardware Keyboard Not Much Better Than Software

crunchgear.com - 11/5/2008
OMG! iPhone keyboard! OMG!
— crunchgear.com — 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 ... (more) OMG! iPhone keyboard! OMG!

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Jailbroken iPhone 3G gets external keyboard, says "Hello"
engadget.com - 11/5/2008
Jailbroken iPhone 3G gets external keyboard, says "Hello"
— engadget.com — If you're one of those people always complaining about the iPhone keyboard (the lack of one, that is), then this is probably a vital piece of news, even if it's not totally practical. Or practical in any way, actually. Some very enterprising ... (more) Jailbroken iPhone 3G gets external keyboard, says "Hello"

Comments vote down The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) found this 11/5/2008found this
Jailbroken iPhone Gets Keyboard
maclife.com - 11/10/2008
Jailbroken iPhone Gets Keyboard
— maclife.com — There is a way! (more) Jailbroken iPhone Gets Keyboard

Comments vote down groovninja groovninja posted 11/10/2008posted this
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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] ...

Add a Real Keyboard to Your iPhone
Apple Eclectic — Personally I’ve never had a problem with the iPhone’s keyboard, but at times it seems like it’s just me and Steve who feel this way. If you simply can’t get along with the lack of physical keys, let me dangle the above video tantalisingly in front of you. ...

Hacker Attaches Physical Keyboard to iPhone
Wired: Gadget Lab — If Apple isn't going to fix all the stuff that bugs you about the iPhone, you might as well hack and mod it to be better, right? A hacker (in the video 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 ...

Hacked iPhone Gets Physical Keyboard
iPhone Hacks — Hacked iPhone Gets Physical Keyboard When we had compared Apple's iPhone 3G with the so-called iPhone killer T-Mobile's G1 we had mentioned that one of the advantages G1 had over iPhone 3G was that it had a full QWERTY physical keyboard. Looks like an iPhone Hacker was not too happy with that comment as he has taken his jailbroken iPhone and hacked it by wiring it up to a genuine physical keyboard.

iPhone Hardware Keyboard Not Much Better Than Software
Cult of Mac —

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? Thing is, this is a glimpse of the future. Not the Macworld '09 future, more like the WWDC '09 type of future. The iPhone docking plug will kind of take a reverse role where it will now connect to peripherals whereas before the iPhone was the peripheral. You'll plug in a connector (or UWB if you are into that type of thing) into a monitor.   Keyboard/Trackpad/Internet of course will all be wireless.   Yes, the iPhone is your computer.  ...

iPhone with a external keyboard
Daily Mobile — There are a lot of things that you can do with a jailbroken iPhone 3G but to connect a external keyboard to the iPhone must be one of the oddest mod you can do :)  The keyboard is from a Palm / Visor and its connected to the iPhone 3G with a custom cable Related Posts On Daily Mobile Apples Wireless keyboard Preview: Proporta External Battery Charger Use your N95 as an external GPS module. ...

Found Footage: Dream of iPhone external keyboard lives on
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — Filed under: Found Footage Since the iPhone's introduction at Macworld in 2007, a large number of people have wanted a tactile keyboard. So far, Apple has not obliged. So, one iPhone owner took the initiate to make his own iPhone keyboard. Using a bit of Ruby code on a jailbroken iPhone, this user is able to connect a Palm keyboard via a 30-pin Dock Connector. The end result is an iPhone with a tactile keyboard. While we can't vouch for the validity of this video, it does look like a cool hack. [via Engadget] On ...

Jailbroken iPhone Gets Keyboard
Mac|Life all RSS Feed — keyboard With all the different peripherals for the iPhone, one would expect a keyboard to hit the market. Apple has yet to release anything to soothe the hungry iPhone folks, but one individual did manage to beat third party hardware vendors to the punch. Using a jailbroken iPhone, the handy hacker ...

Does the iPhone Need an External Keyboard? You Could Always Hack One
iSmashPhone — Some people love the virtual keyboard on the iPhone, others hate it with a passion.  If you hate, you'll just have to put up with it unless you can hack like the person who made the hack shown in this video.  He, or she, apparently managed to connect what looks like an ...

Pimp My iPhone: Ten Ways to Break the Mold
iSmashPhone — Is your iPhone looking a little...drab?  Good news--you can liven your pricey little gadget up! How?  Check out these ten ways to Pimp your iPhone: A golden phone If you really want your friends to know that you are on the phone, get this golden ...

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