iPhone Case with Flip-Out Keyboard
// September 24th, 2010 // 1 Comment » // Apple, iPhone, Tech
This seems pretty cool for all of those out there that love the interface and apps of the iPhone, but still want the tactile feel of a physical keyboard. As the post title infers, the keyboard is built into the case, and is bluetooth, so there’s no extra wires or bulk there. ThinkGeek is coming out with a iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 version of this case, both estimated to ship late November.
It’d be cool if ThinkGeek would send me a review unit of this to try out and review.
I’m not sure how much these will actually boost my productivity, but I am really going to utilize the crap out of the app folders and multitasking. The calendar API sounds pretty cool, but hasn’t gotten much press — then again it may be a little a little too technical to get a lot of writeups.
iTunes has come a long way from its OS X only roots of being merely a way to organize and play your music. It’s now more of a media hub — pretty crucial to all consumer electronics products Apple has released — iPods, iPhones, iPads and even the AppleTV. It’s now includes their store for music, videos, podcasts and applications.
I’m a bit of an Apple fan, to say the least, but not real happy with the direction they’re heading with lockdown — or at least when they are touting it as a quality control thing, when it’s clearly not. I agree with the 
Yesterday, Apple announced the fourth major version of the operating system for the iPhone hardware (and iPod Touch and now the iPad as well). Out of all the little features, most of it did not pique my interest a bit. The only thing that I’ll be really ready for is multitasking — like copy and paste of 3.0, this is a feature that should have rolled out long ago. The only other thing that seems like I’ll use in this fourth iteration of the software is 
So here’s some good news for all of those TiVo fanboys out there who have snagged, or are going to snag TiVo’s newest hardware/software combo. TiVo is soon releasing a modified peanut remote control that has a full QWERTY keyboard. But as of now, it looks like most wireless computer keyboards will work. Plus, like the TiVo HD, there is IP control available, which means the Android Apps and the App Store for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad will soon have plenty of virtual controllers that are compatible with the Series 4 TiVo.
