Hi Michael, I mostly agree, maybe I should have been more clear in saying that I strictly use a bluetooth keyboard when I’m at home and where it’s sitting right next to me anyways most of the time. I also don’t like to try and use it while I’m out and about although occasionally if I go to a trade show and I’m only gone maybe for 2 days I will bring my bluetooth keyboard instead of my laptop. I have my iPhone with me anyways and the bluetooth keyboard is still a lot smaller and lighter than a laptop and this way I can easily reply to an email where the reply needs to be more than just a couple of sentences or at the trade show I can type some notes about a product etc. I think at times a bluetooth keyboard can be extremely useful and help in making the iPhone a substitute for my laptop which generally speaking I don’t consider it to be. I would never get the idea that all I need is an iPhone or, for that matter an iPad. Composing longer texts whether it’s a long email, or document or a spreadsheet is just not something an iPhone is good with and it is even less though for a blind user. Maybe some people take exception to this statement, but as accessible as it is, it just won’t be the same as for a sighted users. I see that again and again when some of my staff look up something on their iPhone, they are usually done by the time I am half way there and I’m a pretty confident user. Another example is if I want to send an email to a customer which contains a few links to some of the products we sell on our website. WE sell a particular brand of german boots which are extremely popular with hikers who know their gear, hunters as well as with police officers. In order to make this easier I have the URL’s to these boot models on our website saved in a little Notepad file and if I compose an email I usually say something like this:
Please take a look at the following model which might interest you: Meindl Glockner GTX<https://www.bvoutdoors.com/meindl-glockner-gtx-mountaineering-boot-115-uk-hemphanf-2858-55-115-30991/> To write this, open my Notepad file, copy the link and then make the boot model text into a link on my Windows PC takes me probably 20 seconds. To accomplish this with an iPhone would be a royal pain in the behind, I could probably make keyboard shortcuts which insert the URL, but I think it looks more professional if the actual product name is a link and just the simple process of turning the rotor to text selection and to select the text is just so much more involved then to go to the start of said text with the cursor and to press Shift+End to select that entire line. Best regards, Sieghard From: viphone@googlegroups.com <viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Michael Maslo Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2018 11:57 AM To: Viphone <viphone@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: 5-key shift keyboard Hello, a few reasons why I never wanted a Bluetooth keyboard. First extremely inconvenient. I hate carrying anything with me when when I leave my house. I know it is lazy but it is who I am. Secondly, as soon as I start carrying a Bluetooth keyboard I feel as though I am carrying a laptop with me. I feel that carrying a phone is portable and means I should not need any other peripherals to use it. Again just my warped way of thinking. On Apr 15, 2018 at 11:30, <Sieghard Weitzel<mailto:siegh...@live.ca>> wrote: Just curious, why do you never want to get a bluetooth keyboard? I personally have a Logitech K780 which is my main keyboard for use with my Windows laptop, but it does support up to 3 devices and I have my iPhone paired with it as well. I rarely use it, but occasionally if I do want to type a longer email or message in Facebook Messenger or WhatsApp I just press FN+F2, within 2 seconds it connects and I can start pounding away. I don’t use it enough to know all the keystrokes for navigating and so on and pretty much strictly use it to type text once I am already where I need to be, but fo rthat it still beats anything else including dictation or FlickType or whatever. From: viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> <viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>> On Behalf Of Michael Maslo Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2018 7:27 AM To: Viphone <viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>> Subject: 5-key shift keyboard Hi list. I was wondering if anyone had tried the five key shift keyboard? I saw it on blind bargains. I tried it and I could not understand any aspect on how to use it. Just credit button curious. I like flick type best amongst keyboard. 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