External keyboard with an iPhone

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hackaday.com - 3/26/2009

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Using an IR keyboard is now possible with a non jailbroken iPhone . The folks at perceptive development have developed a custom interface that connects through the headphone jack. They had already developed the serial modem , so this was just another step at connecting peripherals. With ...

iPhone keyboard - no Jailbreak required, using 2.0 SDK (video)

youtube.com - 3/24/2009

iPhone keyboard - no Jailbreak required, using 2.0 SDK (video)

— youtube.com — We developed this IR keyboard to iPhone adapter using about $20 worth of parts and the official Apple SDK version 2.0. No jailbreaking was required.What do y... (more) iPhone keyboard - no Jailbreak required, using 2.0 SDK ...

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perceptdev.com - 3/24/2009

iPhone Keyboard - no Jailbreaking required, using 2.0 SDK

— perceptdev.com — A number of industrious individuals have achieved what to some is the holy grail of iPhone accessories: an iPhone keyboard. But most have done it in a very hard-to-repeat manner, and few have shared the methods they used. Expanding on their audio ... (more) iPhone Keyboard - no Jailbreaking required, using 2.0 SDK

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i.gizmodo.com - 3/31/2009

iPhone Next Generation: The Most Probable Evolution [Concept]

— i.gizmodo.com — I drooled at the idea of an iPhone Pro with slide keyboard and big honkin' camera , but let's face it: It's probably never going to happen. So—using logic—how the next iPhone look like? Probably something like this: A flatter, even more ... (more) iPhone Next Generation: The Most Probable Evolution ...

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External keyboard for iPhone from our own iPhone Hacks--no jailbreaking needed!
MAKE Magazine — ... that allows infrared keyboards to be used for typing on the iPhone, using less than $20 of electronics. Zack used a Cypress PSoC microcontroller to emulate a simple modem, and then expanded it to detect an infrared signal or read from a USB host controller, which converts this signal to FSK for transmission to an iPhone. iPhone Keyboard - no Jailbreaking required, using 2.0 SDK. [Check out the coverage on ars technica, Gizmodo, Hack a Day, TUAW, and Wired] iPhone Hacks by David ...

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Use an external keyboard with an iPhone sans jailbreak
obsessable.com 3/24/2009 — Enterprising hackers have developed a hardware and software solution that allows infrared keyboards for typing on the iPhone for less than $20. Were you one of those people who used to carry a Palm Pilot around with a large fold-out keyboard, just so you could type away as human's are clearly ...

iPhone external keyboard without jailbreaking
tuaw.com 3/24/2009 — Check this out, folks. Some enterprising young hackers have got an IR keyboard working with a non-jailbroken iPhone . With nothing more than $20US worth of parts and the iPhone 2.0 SDK, they built an adapter for the headphone port that talks with ...

Hackers Add External IR Keyboard to iPhone Without Jailbreaking [IPhone Hacks]
i.gizmodo.com 3/24/2009 — Even though it's still a bit more intensive than plugging in and typing, the tweakers at Perceptive Development have managed to get an external keyboard working via a custom connection built for the headphone jack. It's a progression of their ...

Engineers show off "no jailbreak" iPhone keyboard hack
arstechnica.com 3/24/2009 — A couple of creative engineers at Perceptive Development have developed a method to connect an infrared keyboard to an iPhone and input text using 2.0 SDK-safe code. But don't get your hopes up quite yet, as it's for from the product most ...

iPhone Tweaked (Not Hacked) to Work With External Keyboard
blog.wired.com 3/26/2009 — A major new feature in Apple's upcoming iPhone 3.0 operating system is the ability for applications to communicate with special third-party accessories. But engineers of Perceptive Development have already figured out how to do that with the ...

Tonight, From The Mad Scientist's Club, The No-Jailbreak External iPhone Keyboard — iSmashPhone - Turn your Phone into your MyPhone

The above, which looks like nothing more than amateur night at your local high school's electronics lab, is in fact one of the iPhone "holy grails" -- an external QWERTY keyboard. Unlike previous attempts, which have relied on serial port access, Perceptive Development engineers Zack ...

Hottest Cellphone Feature: Real QWERTY keyboard? — SolSie.com

I remember when Steve Jobs first introduced the iPhone, one of his his first statements about differentiator was: unlike other smartphones the iPhone does not need a real keyboard … But the reality is, the most missed feature for iPhone users is the real keyboard..And at CTIA Wireless ...

No QWERTY, yet UK iPhone users love on-screen keyboard! — IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis

No, there’s no study that measures how much UK iPhone users actually “love” their iPhone’s on-screen keyboard. That would be silly, measuring love . What we can do is look at mobile email adoption rates among UK iPhone users to indirectly measure how iPhone owners in the ...

iPhone external keyboard without hacking, but on iPhone 2.0 SDK — Gadgetell

FROM APPLETELL - Two PerceptDev engineers by the names of Zack Gainsforth and George Dean have been able to get an infrared keyboard working with their iPhone. This hack simply uses less that $20 worth of hardware and an audio port modem. MORE » Full Story » | Written by ...

Keyboard Works with Non-Jailbroken iPhone — Mac|Life all RSS Feed

Hackers Develop Solution to Pair External Keyboard without Hacking iPhone — iPhone Hacks

Some folks insist that one of the deal breakers of the iPhone is the lack of a physical keyboard while, in my opinion as a long time iPhone user who is used to its virtual keyboard, the need for a physical keyboard is unnecessary. However, I have realized that as...

iPhone keyboard hack uses extreme geekery for heroic means — Macworld

Engineers at Perceptive Development have devised a method to connect an infrared keyboard to an iPhone using a 1200 baud modem that connects to the iPhone via the headphone port.

iPhone keyboard hack uses extreme geekery for heroic means — iPhone Central

Engineers at Perceptive Development have devised a method to connect an infrared keyboard to an iPhone using a 1200 baud modem that connects to the iPhone via the headphone port.

External IR Keyboard Added To iPhone Without Jailbreaking — Ubergizmo

Hackers have managed to make an external IR keyboard play nice with an iPhone without having the need to jailbreak the device in the first place - after all, having a keyboard will come in handy if you're one who have plenty of text messages and emails to reply wherever you go. This is made ...

iPhone 2.0 keyboard hack, sans jailbreak — The Apple Core

One of the hottest iPhone stories of the past several months was Ralf Ackermann’s Bluetooth keyboard hack where he connected a standard Apple Bluetooth keyboard to an iPhone. The problem with the Ackermann hack is that it requires you to jailbreak your phone and perform other acts of ...

VIDEO: Keyboard working on Non-Jailbroken iPhone — Apple Gazette

This video above from TUAW is supposedly from a non-jail broken iPhone. There appears to be a small debate about whether that is actually true or not…but to me, it doesn’t really matter. I’m just glad to see an external keyboard working on the iPhone. When you combine ...

iPhone external IR keyboard - no jailbreak required using 2.0 SDK (with video) — MacDailyNews

We developed this IR keyboard to iPhone adapter using about $20 worth of parts...