Hi Ari,

I use the Amazon Basics Bluetooth wireless keyboard with my iPhone 5s when I'm in a hurry or can slip it in my backpack. It's just to handy not to take it with you. It's about 10 inches from left to right, 5 inches from front to back and at it's thickest point maybe an inch high. It's powered by 2 triple A. batteries which I've had in the keyboard sense a year ago this March. When replying to email and text messages you need not know all the VO commands. You can just double tap the text box which then would have focus and just bang away on the keyboard to enter in the text. If you watch Amazon for when they put the keyboard on special, you can get it for under 20 bucks. Ticked me off too because I paid 26 dollars for mine and they just had it for 19.99. Oh well!

HTH

PS: There is also a nice soft case for the keyboard if your going to carry it around in a backpack. The case is 20 bucks as well but very much worth the price if the keyboard is going to spend a lot of time in a backpack.

Regards,

Alan

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Oh, that's good. I'm tempted to get it. I really do love my Braille display, but sometimes I just want to type using a QWERTY keyboard and not have to worry about iOS's weird Braille translation issues/quirks. I've never been able to get anything to pair with my computer, however, which is the only place I would use the keyboard besides my iPhone. Oh, well. That's a Windows thing, and thus not relative to this list. Anyhow, thank you for the information. It's really appreciated.


Thanks,
Ari

On Apr 24, 2014, at 9:44 PM, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]> wrote:

Yes, very much the same size, very nice keys and a very nice, quality feel. On/off is a physical slider switch on the right side of the keyboard and it' rather stiff, there is no way it would move by itself or if pushed inside a
bag.

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Sieghard, how big would you say the Logitech keyboard it is. To the Apple
keyboard? Is it around the same size? Also, does it use a physical on-off
switch to turn on? I really like the Apple keyboard, but it's one drawback
for me was that it used a button to turn on and off, which in my use case,
often got pressed a lot.


Thanks,
Ari

On Apr 24, 2014, at 1:02 PM, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi Rena,

The solar keyboard is probably the one from Logitech and while it can
recharge using light, it still is a Bluetooth keyboard and I think
it's pretty safe to say that all iPhone external keyboards connect via
Bluetooth.
The Apple Wireless keyboard is very nice, but so is the Logitech K811
which also allows you to connect 2 more devices, for example, if you
had an iPhone, iPad and Apple TV you could connect all 3 devices and
switch between them simply by pressing F1, F2 and F3.

You can pretty much fully navigate your iPhone with a Bluetooth
keyboard, of course you can type text, you can copy, cut and paste,
you can even dial a phone number, but you can't input numbers during a
call for example if you call your bank and have to enter an account
number. I guess I should qualify this, you can do this if the dialpad
is on the screen and you could then use the arrows to go to a
particular number and select/dial it, but if you had to enter a long
number and go, for example, from 1 to 0 and back to 2 or something
like that you would have to arrow and select your numbers awefully fast so
the system wouldn't time out.


Regards,
Sieghard

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Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2014 12:46 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Question about keyboard for iPhone

Hello,

I have 2 questions, please:
1. How many keyboards are there for the iPhone? What's the best for a
blind user? I read about the bluetooth, but I also heard about one that is
solar.
2. How much can I accomplish using the keyboard? Only to type emails
and notes?
Thank you,
Rena

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