The iPhone Bluetooth Keyboard Driver got everybody excited last year, however, having to jailbreak and drain your battery with Bluetooth was a serious drawback. Well, for those of you who always dreamed of typing on a physical keyboard with your iPhone, Ion came up with a different solution.
The iTYPE is a full-featured keyboard that lets you insert your iPhone and transform it in an ultra-portable computer. On top of that, it includes its own battery so it will not affect your iPhone’s battery and will actually let you charge it while you use it.
If music is more your thing, they also prepped a piano keyboard version. I wonder what Yann Tiersen could do with this one:
Those devices still look kinda bulky to me, and you might be better off carrying your laptop around, but still, the gaining popularity of a keyboard-powered iPhone is definitely welcome.
There is no word of pricing yet.
[via Ion]
Looking at my nex Vaio X11 I wonder when there will be a monitor attached
Awesome to see these finally being made, but it desperately needs the ability to raise the iphone on a slant. Maybe it has that, but no images or information about the product mentions it.
Plus I’d be interested to see if they have tied Cmd+C / Ctrl + C, Shift lift/right etc into the iPhone’s OS to allow for copy and paste, highlighting etc.
All in all, glad to see. But if/when the tablet arrives this won’t be needed quite as much I’m guessing.
Please keep us posted this is amazing
Can you use these on non jail broken iPod touches?