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November 6, 2008
Posted by Alias420

It looks a Japanese iPhone hacker got tired of using the iPhone’s sometimes troublesome touchscreen keyboard. They created their own external keyboard addon using some Ruby code and what appears to be a Palm / Visor external keyboard connected via a customized cable. Check out the video below:

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10 Comments »

Comment by none
2008-11-06 15:05:21

Great! that was needed. now you can at least use the shell in a nice way.

 
Comment by miktar
2008-11-07 13:42:54

Figures this would come out at the same time my friend and I started working on getting the palm folding keyboard working throughout the whole O/S. Hopefully this just works in console so we have something to do besides wire connections and load up the software.

 
Comment by pat
2008-11-09 14:13:36

i am veeeeeeeerry disapointed….. this site was thebest and now they havent had a breakthrough in firmware hacking since september 20th what are the iphone hackers doing!!!!

Comment by funklee916
2008-11-18 01:00:29

Why dont you help them out then? instead of complaining.

 
 
Comment by akash
2008-11-15 07:30:04

cool !this rocks

 
Comment by funklee916
2008-11-16 04:10:47

I dont get annoyed by the touch screen keyboard enough to go through the trouble of making an external keyboard. Honestly i still type faster on the touch screen than any external full qwerty keyboard phone ive had so far.

 
Comment by Kyle
2008-11-22 04:09:10

FAKE.

1. how can external keyboard interface with iphone programs without custom kernel extensions/program developed for iphone?

2. hardware interfacing over bluetooth isn’t supported other than earpiece at the time

3. how do we know whether he’s using windows mobile device connected to his PC controlling his iphone?

4. what hardware was that custom wire on the iphone connected to?

debunk/answer-with-proof just one of these 4 points and you get my praise

 
Comment by Kyle
2008-11-22 04:10:02

5. why is the screen on your windows mobile covered?

 
Comment by miktar
2008-11-25 20:09:24

1. It’s a serial connected keyboard being echoed within a program.

2. It’s serial, note the cable, its not wireless.

3. Uhhh…. what?

4. That would be a serial keyboard, sir.

Seriously, don’t be an ass just for the sake of being an ass.
It’s just a serial keyboard with a bit of code to interpret keypresses. Not very hard to do, he’s not even having it do anything, it just prints to the screen within his own program.
If he got it running globally, then that would be something that you could question, but this is simple as hell.

 
Comment by nate
2008-12-04 11:02:33

where can I buy it and how do I access my iPhone unix console? emacs for iPhone anyone?

 
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