by Simon Ng on September 21, 2009
Last Fri, I covered the world’s first commercial keyboard for iPhone – The iTwinge. At that time, I do not have any video to demonstrate the hand-on experience of iTwinge. Now, the company has published a video to show you how iTwinge works and how fast you can type with the physical keyboard.
After checking out [...]
by Simon Ng on September 18, 2009
When iPhone was first debut in Jun 2007, some users criticized the lack of physical keyboard is a big drawback. Personally, I do not find any problem with the virtual keyboard. I already get used to it and can type quite fast. If you’re not using iPhone for typing your thesis or lengthy article, the [...]
by Simon Ng on May 2, 2009
Guys from Crave TV had put both iPhone and Netbook into an extreme challenge – Typing test in a rally car going at 80mph:
Our challenge was pretty simple: hop into the passenger seat alongside 14-time European Rallycross champion Kenneth Hansen, hurtle around Lydden race track in Dover, and attempt to type, ‘The quick brown fox [...]
by Simon Ng on April 20, 2009
You probably have voiced out or heard similar complaints from other iPhone users:
“The keys are too small for my big finger!”
“The keys are closed to each other. There is not enough room between them and contribute typos.”
“How can I type faster on iPhone?”
A new iPhone app called iTypeFastR targets to let you type faster with [...]
by Simon Ng on March 26, 2009
Do you need an external iPhone Keyboard? This may be a cheap solution.
Earlier, an iPhone hacker has posted a very cool video in his blog that shows an iPhone is paired with an Apple Bluetooth keyboard. Though it’s just a prototype, undoubtedly, that solution will only work on jailbroken iPhone.
This time, PerceptDev engineers Zack [...]
by Simon Ng on February 27, 2009
Do you find troublesome to switch to numeric keyboard using the “123″ key? KennyTM, the developer of hClipboard, has developed a 5-Row QWERTY keyboard for iPhone. This tweak adds an additional row of numbers over the existing keyboard, so that you can type number directly, which is quite similar to a standard QWERTY keyboard.