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The BT keyboard I use weighs a few ounces. It is not pocketable but I don’t notice it in my backpack. I had one way back that was pocketable and would have been way more usable than a blackberry keyboard, but the keys bounced something terrible, probably due to crap debouncing software inside. I thought of getting another one that might be better, but am happy with the full sized one. I don’t write that much text on a phone anyway. I use my laptop when I can.
This feels so contradictory! You don’t write that much text on a phone - but enough to buy a full-size keyboard for it, that you carry around in your backpack? I don’t think many people like going to that much trouble. An extra thing whose battery status needs to be monitored, an extra thing to turn the Bluetooth for - and where do you place it for typing? Where do you put the phone so you can see the screen? Needs a table.
The keyboard just sits in my backpack, so I have it if I want to type more than a few sentences on my phone, which usually means I didn’t bring my laptop (an old chonker). A smaller laptop would be better tbh, but my old one broke and I haven’t replaced it. Yeah seeing the phone screen while typing isn’t so easy, but I’m a touch typist, so I type first and then look. Battery not too much of a problem tbh. I just charge it up once in a while. I had one previously that used AAA cells (preferable) but I misplaced it.
It’s not perfect but it beats the phone keyboard and I would say beats a Blackberry-style keyboard. I never used a real Blackberry but I had a Nokia E63 for a while, and it was the same idea. It was better than a screen keyboard but still a severe compromise. You can currently get something like that from M5Stack.
The tiny BT keyboard with horrible keybounce that I had for a while looked like this:
The BT keyboard I use weighs a few ounces. It is not pocketable but I don’t notice it in my backpack. I had one way back that was pocketable and would have been way more usable than a blackberry keyboard, but the keys bounced something terrible, probably due to crap debouncing software inside. I thought of getting another one that might be better, but am happy with the full sized one. I don’t write that much text on a phone anyway. I use my laptop when I can.
This feels so contradictory! You don’t write that much text on a phone - but enough to buy a full-size keyboard for it, that you carry around in your backpack? I don’t think many people like going to that much trouble. An extra thing whose battery status needs to be monitored, an extra thing to turn the Bluetooth for - and where do you place it for typing? Where do you put the phone so you can see the screen? Needs a table.
The keyboard just sits in my backpack, so I have it if I want to type more than a few sentences on my phone, which usually means I didn’t bring my laptop (an old chonker). A smaller laptop would be better tbh, but my old one broke and I haven’t replaced it. Yeah seeing the phone screen while typing isn’t so easy, but I’m a touch typist, so I type first and then look. Battery not too much of a problem tbh. I just charge it up once in a while. I had one previously that used AAA cells (preferable) but I misplaced it.
It’s not perfect but it beats the phone keyboard and I would say beats a Blackberry-style keyboard. I never used a real Blackberry but I had a Nokia E63 for a while, and it was the same idea. It was better than a screen keyboard but still a severe compromise. You can currently get something like that from M5Stack.
The tiny BT keyboard with horrible keybounce that I had for a while looked like this:
https://www.adafruit.com/product/3601
I like to think the linked one might be better, but I haven’t tried it.