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Would seriously consider buying this if it were a case with a back-sliding landscape keyboard. Something like: https://www.cnet.com/a/img/resize/fd8703ad0b0ec5
by tomasreimers 3y ago
Would seriously consider buying this if it were a case with a back-sliding landscape keyboard. Something like:
https://www.cnet.com/a/img/resize/fd8703ad0b0ec545ac98701c396e4cb217cac0df/hub/2012/05/18/7298c7a1-bb76-11e2-8a8e-0291187978f3/35034955-7.jpg?auto=webp&fit=crop&height=900&width=1200 https://www.cnet.com/a/img/resize/fd8703ad0b0ec545ac98701c39...
- valianteffort 3y agoI think the camera bumps kind of prevent this without turning the phone into a literal brick. Would have to be more like a clamshell/folio type case like with the iPads. That said the keyboard in OP looks so unbelievably fucking stupid and impractical I can't understand how it made it to production.
- devmor 3y agoDoesn't have to cover the entire back of the camera. Just needs to use magsafe to attach.
- cududa 3y agoI don't think magsafe is strong enough to support the entire phone on a keyboard
- happyopossum 3y agoMagSafe supports my 'entire phone' bouncing around in my truck, and hanging on my headboard at night - it's more than strong enough to hold a phone to a keyboard.
- cududa 3y agoFair and good point!
- kridsdale1 3y agoI enjoy that your unwritten implication is that your headboard is banging around at night with equal amplitude to your truck.
- dbspin 3y agoIs this something that has changed with the newer phones? I have an iPhone 12 pro, and MagSafe barely holds the wireless charging circle to the back of the phone.
- ClassyJacket 3y agoSupporting the entire phone is the entire point of Magsafe, what else would you even use it for?
- dylan604 3y agolightly holding the charger in place well enough to maintain contact yet easily removed if the cable is pulled without damaging cable or device. anything after that is bonus and outside the scope of magsafe's use. the magnets on my desktop multi-device charger do not meet that requirement as they are significantly stronger than Magsafe connections.
- johnwalkr 3y agoIt works great to support the entire weight of the phone on your desk or a dashboard, even when driving a fast car or riding a bike (unless you crash of course). But it's 1-2 orders of magnitude less force than required to resist pulling it out of your pocket.
- al_borland 3y agoI use the MagSafe Apple wallet and often turn is sideways to give myself something to hold while I watch videos in landscape. A keyboard would work in much the same way, in terms of what it needs to support and where it’s being held.
- valianteffort 3y agoThat wouldn't be very comfortable at all
- drudoo 3y agoI had this as a case for the iPhone 4 (or 5S, can’t remember). Was amazing but very bulky.
- cududa 3y agoThe Palm Pre was my dream phone
- lazzurs 3y ago+1 I can’t get over how long it took Apple to adopt the same charging mechanism. It’s depressing how good the Pre phones were and how long it’s taken to get anywhere near close to as good.
- skyyler 3y agoStill waiting for multi-tasking that works as well as it did on the Pre. Maybe one day.
- cududa 3y agoFor me, the X and the iOS version with it (can't remember which one), with the gesture swiping etc, finally was as good as (even perhaps better than) the Palm Pre
- JimDabell 3y ago> I can’t get over how long it took Apple to adopt the same charging mechanism. I knew somebody with a Pre and he had to have it replaced two or three times because the charging mechanism kept breaking. It’s fairly common that somebody else will do something “first” but Apple will wait until the technology is mature enough to be reliable.
- soylentcola 3y agoMine got a hairline crack in the chassis next to the charging port, but the magnetic charger didn't have the same issue (obviously). There were plenty of issues with the Pre and immediate followups didn't do enough to solve them. That said, it was probably the last really "interesting" phone design I owned.
- Sohcahtoa82 3y ago
- hanniabu 3y agoI always loved the LG env2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG_enV2_%28VX9100%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG_enV2_%28VX9100%29
- worthless-trash 3y agoHow should they work around covering the camera ?
- richardw 3y agoI got an HTC TyTN once. I hated that phone so much. Keyboard slipped out, which I guess worked. It was the phone that made me religiously stick with Apple all this time. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_TyTN https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_TyTN Before that I had a Palm 5 PDA, which I loved. So interesting that you can add features and connectivity and still make the thing suck.
- Toutouxc 3y agoThat is interesting, I had a TyTN II and miss it to this day. The keyboard was pure bliss, the software was all there (browsing, messaging, photos, calendar, cool games - everything I now use my iPhone for). It had a nice chunk to it and made a cute sound when you slid the keyboard out. You could even run Android on it thanks to some nice people on XDA.
- soylentcola 3y agoYep, had that and a Touch Pro before getting a Pre and then finally (begrudgingly) accepting that there weren't gonna be any more higher-end phones with slide-out keyboards.
- philsnow 3y agoI still have an HTC Dream in a drawer somewhere, thinking that someday I'll repurpose it as a bluetooth keyboard for something or other.
- timvdalen 3y agoI miss my HTC phones
- lopis 3y agoI thought it would be this as well. I dearly miss my 2013 Xperia Mini Pro. But this? Looking at this product gives me wrist pain. The iPhone is about 250g. How can you comfortably hold it from the tip?