Strictly speaking it is not, this special Bluetooth keyboard is meant to be used almost stand-alone since it has speakers. Of course it has to be connected to your iPhone, but I guess the idea is that you leave your iPhone in your pocket or backpack and use this gadget. Of course I am sure there will be situations where you still have to use your iPhone and as bad as it apparently seems to be for some, to touch that horrible touch screen. If this thing cost $29.99 I might buy it, but at $299.99 which I assume is US which means at the current exchange rate it would probably cost $399.99 Canadian I can certainly do without and have one less item sitting around which needs to be charged and all that.
From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Anthony Vece Sent: Thursday, January 3, 2019 10:39 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Using Your iPhone Without a Touchscreen A Bluetooth keyboard will the same thing. Sent from my Verizon iPhone X!!! On Jan 3, 2019, at 11:26 AM, Richard Turner <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I didn’t listen that far in the podcast, but I suspect that might be so, or it uses some variation on braille, but frankly, I think it is a bit silly, unless it does meet a specific need of someone with a particular disability, but to plug it as a way to use the iPhone without the touch screen is very misleading. I can already do that with a Bluetooth keyboard or a braille device like the Orbit Reader 20. Richard “Definition of an expert: An ex is a has-been and a spirt is a drip under pressure.” – Bruce U. Utah Phillips From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Thursday, January 3, 2019 8:22 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: Using Your iPhone Without a Touchscreen And how would you say write a text message or email with 20 buttons? Please don't tell me it uses the old T9 method where you have to press the number 2 three times for the letter C etc. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> On Behalf Of Richard Turner Sent: Thursday, January 3, 2019 8:19 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: Using Your iPhone Without a Touchscreen I agree Sieghard, This won’t help you if you are a quadriplegic, etc. It is a modified Bluetooth keyboard with 20 buttons and you have to learn their system of button combinations to accomplish what you want. It does offer a micro and speaker so the sound is coming out of the little keyboardish device. But, if you have some finger dexterity but not enough to use a standard Bluetooth keyboard, I guess there might be some uses for this. It must be targeting a small market given that the price is rather high. Just my two cents worth, and it didn’t cost you anything, grin. Richard “Definition of an expert: An ex is a has-been and a spirt is a drip under pressure.” – Bruce U. Utah Phillips From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Thursday, January 3, 2019 8:09 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: Using Your iPhone Without a Touchscreen I think I heard about this before and maybe this is a newer version, but for the most part I am amazed at how much trouble people go to and how much money they spend to take away the strength of the iPhone or, for that matter, other advanced smartphones. I understand that there might be a few cases where a person for whatever reason can't touch the phone, e.g. if they are quadriplegic, have no hands etc. Apple and now Google have put a lot of very smart people to work to come up with this incredible way to make touchscreen devices extremely accessible, apps like Flicktype make typing very efficient with a bit of practice yet some people still think they are better off trying to avoid touching that screen as much as possible. Maybe I miss something here, but I just don't get it. 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