portable keyboard anyone?
Apr 25, 2022, 11:49 am
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portable keyboard anyone?
I just can't type on those on-screen keyboards that phone and tablets have. I don't want to haul my MacBook with on vacation along with the phone and tablet. Has anyone used a Bluetooth portable keyboard to attach to your phone or tablet? It would make my journalling so much easier than my hunt/peck/hit the wrong key method. I barely have enough patience for a text...
Apr 25, 2022, 12:31 pm
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At an exorbitant cost in both money and weight, Apple offers an external keyboard for the iPad. Aside from the money and weight issues, I think it's great. (I used to have a non-Apple keyboard for an iPad. It was both cheaper and lighter than the Apple product, and it had a Home button, which the Apple product does not. The feel of the Apple product is better, in my subjective opinion.)
Apr 25, 2022, 12:42 pm
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I’ve bought a couple of aftermarket ipad keyboards on Amazon. $30-40 each. They work fine. One has a backlit keyboard. Both are part of the ipad case.
Apr 25, 2022, 8:18 pm
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I have an Amazon brand bluetooth keyboard that I think I paid $15 for sometime around 2017, specifically for the purpose of writing longer e-mails on my work phone without having to drag a laptop around.
Not as nice as having a real laptop, but way better than the on-screen keyboard. It looks like they don't make the one I have anymore, but there are plenty on Amazon for $20 and under.
Not as nice as having a real laptop, but way better than the on-screen keyboard. It looks like they don't make the one I have anymore, but there are plenty on Amazon for $20 and under.
Apr 25, 2022, 9:14 pm
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There are plenty of bluetooth keyboards out there, but I'd focus on the specs. Are you looking for a full keyboard? Or 60%? Or even one of those joystick keyboards (ala Blackberry) Or somewhere in between? It might sounds like a silly question, but it actually does matter. I find I'm good up to a 60% keyboard before my fingers start to cramp.
Apr 26, 2022, 7:35 am
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i had an amazingly convenient keyboard made,I think, by Logitech. it was full size and had two useful features,. Firstly, it had a cut in it for putting the ipad in. That gave it the appearance and functionality of a laptop.
secondly, it had a magnet hinge along one edge which clung very effectively to the edge of the iPad, giving the impression/feeling of a one-piece unit.
secondly, it had a magnet hinge along one edge which clung very effectively to the edge of the iPad, giving the impression/feeling of a one-piece unit.
Apr 26, 2022, 11:35 am
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i had an amazingly convenient keyboard made,I think, by Logitech. it was full size and had two useful features,. Firstly, it had a cut in it for putting the ipad in. That gave it the appearance and functionality of a laptop.
secondly, it had a magnet hinge along one edge which clung very effectively to the edge of the iPad, giving the impression/feeling of a one-piece unit.
secondly, it had a magnet hinge along one edge which clung very effectively to the edge of the iPad, giving the impression/feeling of a one-piece unit.
If it isn't that one (yellow and dark grey), then it was likely something like the K750 which was a wireless USB keyboard.
Apr 26, 2022, 12:15 pm
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Logitech Keyboards
i had an amazingly convenient keyboard made,I think, by Logitech. it was full size and had two useful features,. Firstly, it had a cut in it for putting the ipad in. That gave it the appearance and functionality of a laptop.
secondly, it had a magnet hinge along one edge which clung very effectively to the edge of the iPad, giving the impression/feeling of a one-piece unit.
secondly, it had a magnet hinge along one edge which clung very effectively to the edge of the iPad, giving the impression/feeling of a one-piece unit.
Usable with any device with Bluetooth, so your phone would work.. I have had excellent luck with Logitech products.
I paid $100 years ago, think the price has dropped since. They make a multidevice keyboard that is only $35, but I have not seen it in person.
Apr 26, 2022, 12:34 pm
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I'm assuming this is the one being talked about:
https://www.staples.ca/products/1278...keyboard-black
https://www.staples.ca/products/1278...keyboard-black
Apr 26, 2022, 1:38 pm
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I have an Amazon brand bluetooth keyboard that I think I paid $15 for sometime around 2017, specifically for the purpose of writing longer e-mails on my work phone without having to drag a laptop around.
Not as nice as having a real laptop, but way better than the on-screen keyboard. It looks like they don't make the one I have anymore, but there are plenty on Amazon for $20 and under.
Not as nice as having a real laptop, but way better than the on-screen keyboard. It looks like they don't make the one I have anymore, but there are plenty on Amazon for $20 and under.
Apr 26, 2022, 6:40 pm
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Yep, it's a standalone 60% (ish) size keyboard. No tablet or phone holder, just a keyboard. I set it and the phone on a desk or table and type out my e-mail, then throw the keyboard back in my bag. It's definitely not as good as a tablet/keyboard combo or a laptop, but when you want to write a 150-word e-mail it's way better than trying to type it on a phone keyboard--particularly since I was using the original iPhone SE when I got it.
Apr 27, 2022, 10:48 am
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I recently got this folding Bluetooth keyboard as I didn’t want to bring my work laptop on holiday but, knew I might be dragged into some work.
I only used it once so far, it’s pretty robust, folds down reasonably small but it isn’t full sized and would take a bit of time to be able to get comfortable to type at length at any speed.
I only used it once so far, it’s pretty robust, folds down reasonably small but it isn’t full sized and would take a bit of time to be able to get comfortable to type at length at any speed.
Apr 27, 2022, 11:59 am
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Yep, it's a standalone 60% (ish) size keyboard. No tablet or phone holder, just a keyboard. I set it and the phone on a desk or table and type out my e-mail, then throw the keyboard back in my bag. It's definitely not as good as a tablet/keyboard combo or a laptop, but when you want to write a 150-word e-mail it's way better than trying to type it on a phone keyboard--particularly since I was using the original iPhone SE when I got it.