IAN has announed the iTYPE keyboard which will bring full-sized typing to all iPhone owners. The design is unusual, but it will have a place for those who want to do some serious work on their pocket wonder. Multi-tasking would be a useful addition for the kind of user who will need this.
iTYPE is a comfortable, familiar computer keyboard that transforms your iPhone or iPod touch into an ultra-portable computer. Hit the road with iTYPE and leave your laptop at home!
* Computer keyboard transforms iPhone into ultra-portable computer
* Travelers and vacationers can now travel without laptop computer
* Faster text input than on-screen keyboard
Wow, it’s hard for me to foresee this product being successful. It doesn’t “transforms iPhone into ultra-portable computer”. It just gives it a full-size keyboard. But you still only have a small 3.5″ screen to work with. Plus it doesn’t look very portable at all.
The Z88 goes full circle!
I’d prefer to be able to use a fold out blue tooth keyboard. That was it really is portable, and the screen faces you at a comfortable angle.
Interesting but odd.
For jailbroken iPhones you can already use bluetooth keyboards. I’m not jailbroken and so I don’t but if anyone’s interested I think it’s called BT Stack or something like that.
Looks more likely to succeed than this device.
Sid
A full-size keyboard running OS X? Called a laptop.