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Miss Physical Keyboards? New 'Clicks' Accessory Adds Keys to Your iPhone

One of my first smartphones was an Android phone with the slide out keyboard. I do miss that thing.

But not enough to purchase this product. My iPhone is big and bulky enough already.
 
Not suggesting it will be hugely popular, but don't undercut the potential accessibility of a device like this.

It might be unhelpful for most, but there are some corner cases I can think of that would welcome this… particularly those who have poor eyesight.
 
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I was excited about this at first. I may have jumped the gun and ordered one, though sent in a cancelation request. I could see it benefiting me for both at work and at home as I've switched to just using my iPhone for pretty much everything.

I've had plans of upgrading to the 16 Pro later this year which would make this keyboard case basically ewaste to me. I already know I'll probably be selling it for fractions of what I paid because no one will want it. Though, I probably would have kept the 14 Pro another year if I did continue with this.

I'm not sure what they could have done differently, but a universal keyboard accessory that works with any future iPhone as well would have been ideal to me. Maybe a custom case that the keyboard part can slide, clip into or attach with MagSafe - all they'd have to do in the future is update the case itself. Would have looked a lot less seamless, but would certainly last me a lot longer.
 
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japanime said:
The sheer ridiculousness of this device notwithstanding, imagine how difficult it will be to attach to a phone. Unless the case is made of two pieces that slide together, how would you get this abomination to plug into the lightning port? I can only imagine that it's made out of the thinnest, cheapest silicon available. It will probably snap like a rubber band after being installed and removed more than a few times.

I sometimes wonder whether MacRumors is trolling us for the lolz when they post these word-for-word press releases for the most laughable products imaginable.
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Coming from the industry, it is doable to have a softer TPU frame that will just bend enough to do the job in case you want to do a one piece design.
However, the design displayed here is beyond clunky.

Just imagine your already big Pro Max with this thing on in your pocket or even backpack. Ugh.
 
cult hero said:
Uhhh.

Okay.

I will say this, the physical keyboard on my first smartphone—the G1—was probably the best for doing stuff like SSH or code. That's pretty niche though. At the time I was basically always on call for DevOps work and it was pretty cool to be able to do it well enough from my phone.

But seriously, who is this this for? Between Bluetooth keyboard options, swipe typing, and typing by voice... why would I want this keyboard? What does it actually solve?
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Tie-ping bye voice?
 
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Yellow looks fun. Won't be buying it though. Price is also on the higher side.
 
It looks good.

But I have issues:
1. It is big.
2. It won't support other cases. I have "wallet style" case, which also protects the screen. It wouldn't fit here.
3. It's too expensive. If it was $50 I would've been all over it. Now you can just buy a magic keyboard for less.
4. It blocks the bottom speaker.

edit 5: It's ewaste the second a new iPhone comes around. Since you can't just buy a new case without the keyboard and place the old keyboard in that new case.

If they'd make it either slide out or as an attachment (without the case) and less expensive I would buy it.
 
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This looks like a nice demonstration of why they cut off the physical keyboard on smartphones :)

(pocket) Space, the final frontier.
 
grobik said:
Seriously just waiting for the boomers to die off…
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Between this and the sanctimonious comments about the environment, this is really the archetypical MacRumors thread. Haven't seen so much negativity since when a few of us dinosaurs wanted to have ports that weren't USB-C.

Would have ordered the Clicks if there were a mini version, or even better a QWERTZ one.
 
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Not sure what's funnier, this product or your maths

"The case weighs in at 62 grams, a little under half of the 187 gram weight of the ‌iPhone 15 Pro‌." 62 * 3 = 186g so approx 1/3rd the weight
 
I would really like a physical keyboard, I miss my Treo 650 so much!
I could have been interested, but the fact that it will be obsolete next time I buy an iPhone, as well as the constant bigger size, makes this a no go. If it somehow could be retractable under the phone itself, and in some magic way fit all iPhones, it would be awesome (don't ask me how, I don't build these things)!
Don't underestime the power of tactility!

/$0.02
 
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