Hi Chris,
I'm using the iPad keyboard dock with my iPod Touch, but here's a link
to an article reporting use of the iPad keyboard dock with the iPhone
3GS at Slashgear:
http://www.slashgear.com/ios4-iphone-3gs-works-with-ipad-keyboard-dock-video-2290908/
There's an earlier post I wrote on "iPad keyboard options" that has a
link to the Gearlog diary entry about this, and also links and
excerpts to Dan Frakes' article evaluating both the iPad keyboard dock
and the Apple Wireless Keyboard:
http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/msg19393.html
There are some other considerations that I've discussed on the viphone
list. The keyboard dock is less portable than the Wireless
(BlueTooth) keyboard. In order to support the larger iPad, it has a
stabilizer base that extends out the back of the keyboard, so it
weighs nearly twice as much as the wireless keyboard (21.4 ounces vs.
11.4 ounces, or 600 grams vs. 320 grams). It's about the size of the
iPhone (very slightly larger), and extends out from the middle of the
keyboard so that it supports the keyboard at a slight angle for easier
typing. The stabilizer base also supports the back of the iPod Touch
or iPad. It supports about the bottom third of my iPod Touch, as it
sits on the dock connector, and is very slightly wider than the device.
Good points of the keyboard dock are: support in fixed position makes
it easy to alternate between typing and touching the screen, dock has
a connector that allows you to charge your device while docked, and
also has a standard 3.5 mm audio jack connector that lets you connect
up to audio system or speakers (or, you could plug in your headset).
Possible issues: you can't use a case on the bottom of the device that
you dock (not a problem for me, since my iPod Touch case can slide the
bottom half off), less portable (because of weight and shape),
probably not optimal for docking the new iPhone 4 (because of the
different shape design and thickness). Also, the iPhone speaker is at
the bottom of the device, so I don't know how this would work if
receive a call while typing.
HTH. Cheers,
Esther
On Jun 30, 2010, Chris Moore wrote:
Does the iPad keyboard dock work with the iPhone?
On 30 Jun 2010, at 16:42, Esther wrote:
Hi Thuy, Donna, and Erik,
Can you really do page up and page down on the Braille Display?
I'd be interested to see a list of the navigation capabilities of
the Braille devices. I'm writing up a summary of keyboard
shortcuts for the Apple Wireless Keyboard and iPad Keyboard Dock.
These are mostly the movement and selection commands you are
familiar with, but none of the Fn key combinations that work on the
Macbook to page up or page down (Fn+Up or Down Arrow), or to
forward delete (Fn+Delete) work with these keyboards. This may be
a decision, since the iPad Keyboard Dock doesn't have the Fn key.
What's interesting is that the shortcut combination of Command-
Space bar to switch input language keyboards works with these
keyboards. (This shortcut key combination is in the list by Jacob
Rus of Cocoa keybindings, and predates the existence of Spotlight,
which was also assigned this shortcut.)
http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/site/system-bindings.html
The only thing is, if you want to switch to language with non-Roman
letters, such as Russian (cyrillic characters), Greek, or Japanese,
you'd better set your language rotor to "Default" if you want to
hear these options announced. (And I'm really happy there is a
language rotor in iOS4.)
Erik, you can't assign new keys under iOS4, so unless there's a way
to remap the key assignments on the Braille devices, I don't think
you can customize shortcut key combinations.
HTH. Cheers,
Esther
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