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. Your netbook. In less than 1 year. Cortex A8, PA Semi.
note: No sources were used in making of this post. Just speculation of the purest variety..
Waiting on them expanding on the use of wireless, to finally get heart rate monitors to be able to interact with apps on the iPhone - would be a great new market if it could interact with things like Garmin's ANT, POlar HR monitors etc.
Boring. Who needs a giant keyboard when the on screen keyboard works great.
Some people must really need a crutch of a physical keyboard. The Android G1 keyboard is horrible. The on screen keyboard on the iPhone is much much better.
Some folks won't give on the on screen keyboard a chance.
Because the keyboard takes up a huge amount of screen space.
I'm betting that the iPhone won't get a physical keyboard but instead will get a second screen on a slide-out and that the second screen can be used as the keyboard.
Don't jeopardize the integrity of my iphone. The mere thought of an archaic physical keyboard causes me much stress and I cannot handle another existential breakdown. My iphone is the defining characteristic my sophisticated digital life. How will I ever make it to my 30s if I am forced to drag around that horrid thing. Please Jobs, save us all.
Yawn.....zzzzzz
Oh! Hi!
Oh no!
You think this is an advance?
You think this signals a larger iPhone to come?
Someone wants a slide out 2nd screen as keyboard?
No! No! No! Will never happen. Form factor to get better, simpler. NOT worse or more clunky.
Can someone get my ADB mouse working with my MBA?
It'd be SO KOOOL!
This was really exciting news, though.
Better than sleeping tablets.
Yawn.....zzzzzz
of my Nokia 9210i Communicator days; people used to call it "the Brick" and though it was kind of cool to run around with a fridge sized phone in the era of miniaturisation, and though it functioned pretty OK in a windowsy-sort-of-way, my iPhone is sooo much better. The full-featured tactile keyboard on the 9210i was pleasant, and I can understand the urge in some people to add a physical keyboard to the iPhone's power.
But if you invest just a little time and effort in understanding and mastering the iPhone's on-screen keyboard, you will be rewarded: the iPhone on-screen keyboard works much better than I had initially expected. It takes about an hour of keyboard-time to get fully acquainted with the little virtual keys, their spacing and sensitivity, and to keep an eye on the little pop-up text predictor. I am now faster and more accurate with the iPhone keyboard than with the 123-abc type input on mobile phones and I bet (I haven't tested it) that the iPhone keyboard is about equally fast as other smartphones' physical qwerty keyboards.
I wish Mail app would let me tilt the iPhone to get a wider screen keyboard, but there is a free app that does just that and a little more: Easy Mail.
Also I would like to see a bluetooth keyboard (simply the Apple Bluetooth keyboard will do just fine) that pairs with the iPhone one day. Since the iPhone is powerful enough to be the main computer for many of us when travelling, a full-size or even travel-sized physical keyboard is useful for bigger text-entry tasks. Will we see the day?
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Waiting on them expanding on the use of wireless, to finally get heart rate monitors to be able to interact with apps on the iPhone - would be a great new market if it could interact with things like Garmin's ANT, POlar HR monitors etc.
Boring. Who needs a giant
Boring. Who needs a giant keyboard when the on screen keyboard works great.
Some people must really need a crutch of a physical keyboard. The Android G1 keyboard is horrible. The on screen keyboard on the iPhone is much much better.
Some folks won't give on the on screen keyboard a chance.
Amen
I can't use a tiny physical keyboard after using the iPhone... I love the iPhone's keyboard so much! I can type 52 words per minute on it!
omg it has glossy
omg it has glossy screen!
nooo can't use it!
lol
*LOL* ... this made my day!
*LOL*
... this made my day!
Mine doesn't :-) I use a
Mine doesn't :-)
I use a screen protector, which gives it a matt finish.
My question is...why can't we have the same thing for the new MacBooks?
If you don't want the glossy screen, simply apply the screen protector!
ahhh and no firewire
ahhh and no firewire
Let's rock like it's 1994
that looks as clunky as the old wired newton keyboard which was also a complete waste of space and time...
Why???
Why on earth would you plug in a bulky keyboard when you have the gorgeous and very functional on-screen keyboard already on your iPhone?
I have never written faster then I´m doing rigth now thanks to my iPhone keyboard :-) This is not only sms texting...
Why would you ever make iPhone bigger and more uncomftable when Apple has gotten this aspect of the divece just rigth?!
Because the keyboard takes up
Because the keyboard takes up a huge amount of screen space.
I'm betting that the iPhone won't get a physical keyboard but instead will get a second screen on a slide-out and that the second screen can be used as the keyboard.
Yeah.
I'm dreaming.
Its good to dream, so long as
Its good to dream, so long as you don't turn it into a hope.
oh noes
Don't jeopardize the integrity of my iphone. The mere thought of an archaic physical keyboard causes me much stress and I cannot handle another existential breakdown. My iphone is the defining characteristic my sophisticated digital life. How will I ever make it to my 30s if I am forced to drag around that horrid thing. Please Jobs, save us all.
Yawn.....zzzzzz Oh! Hi! Oh
Yawn.....zzzzzz
Oh! Hi!
Oh no!
You think this is an advance?
You think this signals a larger iPhone to come?
Someone wants a slide out 2nd screen as keyboard?
No! No! No! Will never happen. Form factor to get better, simpler. NOT worse or more clunky.
Can someone get my ADB mouse working with my MBA?
It'd be SO KOOOL!
This was really exciting news, though.
Better than sleeping tablets.
Yawn.....zzzzzz
reminds me...
of my Nokia 9210i Communicator days; people used to call it "the Brick" and though it was kind of cool to run around with a fridge sized phone in the era of miniaturisation, and though it functioned pretty OK in a windowsy-sort-of-way, my iPhone is sooo much better. The full-featured tactile keyboard on the 9210i was pleasant, and I can understand the urge in some people to add a physical keyboard to the iPhone's power.
But if you invest just a little time and effort in understanding and mastering the iPhone's on-screen keyboard, you will be rewarded: the iPhone on-screen keyboard works much better than I had initially expected. It takes about an hour of keyboard-time to get fully acquainted with the little virtual keys, their spacing and sensitivity, and to keep an eye on the little pop-up text predictor. I am now faster and more accurate with the iPhone keyboard than with the 123-abc type input on mobile phones and I bet (I haven't tested it) that the iPhone keyboard is about equally fast as other smartphones' physical qwerty keyboards.
I wish Mail app would let me tilt the iPhone to get a wider screen keyboard, but there is a free app that does just that and a little more: Easy Mail.
Also I would like to see a bluetooth keyboard (simply the Apple Bluetooth keyboard will do just fine) that pairs with the iPhone one day. Since the iPhone is powerful enough to be the main computer for many of us when travelling, a full-size or even travel-sized physical keyboard is useful for bigger text-entry tasks. Will we see the day?
Dead Wrong
Your dead wrong on this one Cleve.
Dead wrong!
Docking to Monitor & Keyboard with handwriting recognition
The Netbook concept via an iPhone is growing on me, also it would be cool for it to interface with LiveScribe