External Bluetooth Keyboard Working On Jailbroken iPhone?
6:03 am, February 23rd, 2009, Giles Turnbull
In the words of a late, great, British Saturday morning kids TV show: THIS IS WHAT WE WANT. This is what I’ve wanted since I first got my grubby little fingers on an iPhone. This is how I used to use my Palm (with a GoType keyboard) to write articles on the road. It worked just fine. I really, really want this; not as a plaything for the jailbroken, but as a built-in, out-of-the-box, totally legitimate feature.
Some people are saying this is faked. They say the guy is either using VNC, with an accomplice doing the typing out of sight, or that the camera was paused after the keyboard typing to allow the text to be entered normally (and it’s fair to say that there is a slight camera shake at about 00:33).
But I don’t care if it’s a fake or not. This is a feature I want on my iPhone. In fact, I’m going to stop writing about it and just call my old friend Tim Cook right now. Me and him, you know. We’re buddies.
(Via TUAW.)
Oh, and in other news: people use Macs.
Posted by Giles Turnbull in News, Quickies, Software, iPhone | Comment on this article
Not quite sure how they manage to use a BT keyboard on an iPhone without BT turned on
But I agree with Giles – it would be a very nice feature. Almost as nice as copy/paste.
Kolind, on February 23rd, 2009 at 6:36 am
Interesting he chose to hunt and peck more slowly than actually typing on the iPhone.
I too would love this feature, I always bring that keyboard when I travel for the occasional crowding around the 15″ MBP on a conference table.
Chucko, on February 23rd, 2009 at 11:50 am
We’ve managed to get a standard external keyboard working with the iPhone on OS 2.0 without jailbreaking:
http://www.perceptdev.com/labs/content/iphone-keyboard-no-jailbreaking-required-using-20-sdk
Stephen Brown, on March 24th, 2009 at 10:59 am