With the advent of the iPhone, the slow but steady twilight of physical keyboards began in the smartphone world. The software keyboard and full touchscreen certainly have their undeniable advantages, but the truth is that many would like to combine the user experience of using the operating system iOS with the good old feeling of typing on a physical keyboard. This is the group of users that will soon have this option.
The miraculous device, whose arrival is already imminent, is called Clicks. It is essentially a hardware keyboard for the iPhone with Bluetooth.oneactivity, but you can also connect it to your phone via Lightning or USB-C portIt doesn't need its own battery, draws power directly from the phone and has a power pass-through, so you can charge it without removing the case. According to its creators, Clicks brings several great benefits to users.
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One of them is the increase in space on the iPhone screen, thanks to the fact that the necessary space will no longer be occupied by the software keyboard box. The company behind Clicks also emphasizes the speed of typing and, last but not least, the support for keyboard shortcuts. Keyboard shortcuts already in the system iOS exist, but are only accessible via a physical keyboard. Clicks says its keyboard supports system-wide keyboard shortcuts iOS and many applications – for example, Cmd + H to return to the desktop, Cmd + spacebar to activate Spotlight, or the ability to scroll through web pages using the spacebar. It is a plug & play device, so users do not have to set up anything complicated anywhere.
Together with Clicks, users will be able to iPhone also install the corresponding application with lots of other great features. The Clicks keyboard will be available for iPhone 14 Pro s Lightning konewhich also for iPhone 15 Pro to 15 Pro Max with USB-C toonektorem, its price is set at $ 139. Interested parties can view the keyboard and possibly pre-order it at the Clicks website.
Unfortunately, it does not support magsafe and usb-c is only for charging, it does not support data, so for example in a car with carplay You won't succeed via USB and you'll have to unplug the phone. Too bad. It looked interesting.
I don't think it works as well as they claim. Not once in 10 minutes of video did I see clicking on the keyboard and writing text at the same time without the digital keyboard being extended. He always clicked empty at the bottom and cut off at the top so it wouldn't be seen that he wasn't writing..
Nothing new. I already had a similar one on my iPhone 5.
It looks pretty good, will it be sold here? :-)