That is fricking sweet. Makes you wonder why Apple has locked out BT keyboards on the iPhone. I had a Nokia Thumb keyboard that plugged into my T68i back in 2003. It was great for txting. The N* is looking very interesting. Now make a case that has a slideout keyboard and an extra battery in it and I'd be really interested. They you have the best of both worlds. Business useful QWERTY and extra battery for the workweek and slim touchscreen only for the weekend. Also - I have that same mouse for my laptop - it's really impressive. Been using it 5 days a week for 4 months - still on the original AAA batteries.
@taligent If you have to jailbreak it to do what other devices do out of the box, Fail. If you have to buy an expensive Apple approved peripheral to do it. Fail. If you like being sold defective goods, by all means, keep buying them. But please accept that not everybody is so willing to be treated like a child. Other brands offer what the iPhone doesn't. So people buy the other brands if they want that. Simple competition. Choice is this or that, not this or nothing.
@(Unverified) Exactly - I like Apple products but they are definitely very very frustrating in their "My way or the highway" attitude towards customers. A very glaring example IMHO is - why doesn't the IPod Nano have bluetooth capability? I'd really love to jog with a Jaybird or Motorola S9 wireless headset but to do that with a Nano I have to add in a big clunky adapter and I can't use my Timex iControl watch to pause, change tracks and volume. Same goes for Nike+ technology. Guess what? I don't want to jog with a huge and expensive iPod Touch strapped to my arm. It just annoys me how apple so intentionally cripples their products. It is a anti-competitive situation in the sense that they have corner on the market right now and so can act in ways that is in fact anti-competitive. They have cleverly built a business model where the costs of switching to another environment has become prohibitive for many customers and thus the free market really ceases to function. This is also becoming true in the case of the iPhone - I've already heard of people interested in Android devices say that they already have to much money invested in iTunes and iPhone apps to switch. When you control 90+% of a market (MP3 players only - the war isn't over in smartphones) it isn't a free market anymore.
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That is fricking sweet. Makes you wonder why Apple has locked out BT keyboards on the iPhone. I had a Nokia Thumb keyboard that plugged into my T68i back in 2003. It was great for txting. The N* is looking very interesting. Now make a case that has a slideout keyboard and an extra battery in it and I'd be really interested. They you have the best of both worlds. Business useful QWERTY and extra battery for the workweek and slim touchscreen only for the weekend. Also - I have that same mouse for my laptop - it's really impressive. Been using it 5 days a week for 4 months - still on the original AAA batteries.
@SolonLysander .. You can use a BT keyboard if you jailbreak it.
Quite bizarre from Apple given that the iPad supports it.
@SolonLysander Bluetooth keyboards in ios 4.0 idiot
@taligent You can use a mouse if you jailbreak, you can use a keyboard with ios 4
@taligent
Doesn't iOS4 support bluetooth keyboards, on the iPhone? Or am I misinformed?
@That guy 2
You a dumbass.
Ios 4 is not out today. So his point stands.
Go back to playing with the toys daddy buys you little boy
@taligent
If you have to jailbreak it to do what other devices do out of the box, Fail.
If you have to buy an expensive Apple approved peripheral to do it. Fail.
If you like being sold defective goods, by all means, keep buying them. But please accept that not everybody is so willing to be treated like a child.
Other brands offer what the iPhone doesn't. So people buy the other brands if they want that. Simple competition. Choice is this or that, not this or nothing.
@(Unverified) Exactly - I like Apple products but they are definitely very very frustrating in their "My way or the highway" attitude towards customers. A very glaring example IMHO is - why doesn't the IPod Nano have bluetooth capability? I'd really love to jog with a Jaybird or Motorola S9 wireless headset but to do that with a Nano I have to add in a big clunky adapter and I can't use my Timex iControl watch to pause, change tracks and volume. Same goes for Nike+ technology. Guess what? I don't want to jog with a huge and expensive iPod Touch strapped to my arm. It just annoys me how apple so intentionally cripples their products. It is a anti-competitive situation in the sense that they have corner on the market right now and so can act in ways that is in fact anti-competitive. They have cleverly built a business model where the costs of switching to another environment has become prohibitive for many customers and thus the free market really ceases to function. This is also becoming true in the case of the iPhone - I've already heard of people interested in Android devices say that they already have to much money invested in iTunes and iPhone apps to switch. When you control 90+% of a market (MP3 players only - the war isn't over in smartphones) it isn't a free market anymore.