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iPod Touch keyboard add-on
Filed under: general. Tags: apple, hardware, ipod, ipod touch.
Real keyboard, connected to iPod Touch via USB through iPod Camera Connector accessory.
I want this. Well, maybe with a slimmer keyboard. Possibly a foldable version of something the size of the Apple Wireless Keyboard (pictured below). Doesn’t have to actually BE wireless, though. I’d be FINE with a USB cable, and even with slapping rechargeable batteries in the keyboard to prevent an additional power draw from the iPod Touch…
Apple Wireless Keyboard - perfect companion to my iPod Touch? Please?
This would make the Notes app much more useful. And the WordPress app. And email. etc… etc…
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How about this as a solution? - http://www.virtual-laser-keyboard.com/
If ipod have this, It will be great
I had a folding keyboard for my old Palm that worked pretty well, as long as you had a solid surface to put it on. It sucked for lap use, though. I don’t know why the designers didn’t include some kind of lock mechanism.
I also had a folding keyboard for my old palm that I LOVED. I would love to be able to use a small keyboard during my morning commute to write emails on my ipod.
Does this actually work on the ipod. You can reply back at sandarab920@yahoo.com.
Cuz I want to buy a camera connector.
@Mo, I’m wondering why you post using one Yahoo email address and ask for direct replies to a second, different Yahoo address. That smells spammy, and I almost flagged your comments as spam.
And no, it doesn’t work. Too bad, because it’d be great to have a keyboard on the iPod Touch. But I’m guessing a full-sized USB keyboard would draw too much power from the tiny device…
So what’s the final story with this? You mocked up the photo to get us all excited? Or it genuinely exists?
Like everyone else, I would dearly love to be able to use a full-sized keyboard with my iPod touch. It would in fact free me completely from having to carry a laptop most of the time.
I came across this post searching, from scratch, and it doesn’t seem like there is anything going on. I imagine it would be quite hard to program, or someone would already have done it.
I just tried plugging a keyboard into my iPod Touch using the adapter I had at hand. The pieces fit, so I wanted to see if it worked. Didn’t do it to get anyone excited - all I was doing was trying it out to see if it worked.
It doesn’t.
I think the biggest problem isn’t programming - the iPod uses MacOSX so it should be already able to handle keyboards - but the extra power draw of driving a keyboard. Maybe a keyboard with its own batteries would make it possible?
Somebody, somewhere, has got to be working on this — and when they go looking for a beta tester or an early adopter, I hope they’ll know where to find us!
I reckon the demand would be huge. A keyboard with a hard, snap on lid, so I could just throw it in my bag, would be so valuable to me and manny others.
I would love to purchase an iPod Touch - if and only if - it came with an external keyboard. I currently own a Palm TX with an external keyboard, WiFi, a reasonable browser (sort-of), good language translation software for learning German, and a word processor that is MS compatible. I’d drop the Palm in a second if only the iPod touch had a keyboard. I’m a good typist and the keyboard for the Palm is really essential for me to be able to use it as a laptop replacement. Is Apple afraid of people using the iPod Touch instead of buying their laptops? Or… ? I really don’t get it. There are lots and lots of forums just like this one with people clamoring for an external keyboard.
Still waiting….
Hey Apple… Are you listening?