BTstack Keyboard jailbreak app provides iPhone text entry

I keep hearing one thing: "It would be great to not have to take my laptop everywhere I go." Wait, uh... WHY did you spend the extra thousand dollars (or equivalent) for the laptop, instead of an iMac?! If you intend your laptop to sit on a desk and never move it, get a desktop system instead.

As for the keyboard, well, I DO use the iPhone as my only connection to the cyberworld when I'm out and about, choosing to leave my MBP at home (not because it sits on a desk, but because it's in a state of disarray; my iMac is what I use primarily). I could see the keyboard being quite useful at the coffee shop, not so much while waiting for my hair appointment.

Nevermind.

I bought it, have been using it, and I LOVE IT. Back to the golden days when I had a Handspring Visor (PalmOS) and a folding Stowaway keyboard. In high school I was able to take notes with it, and found it to be an actual, practical, solution.

It still has some drawbacks; some apps don't use the arrow keys for the cursor, some do. Some don't see the return key to send a message but others do. The on-screen-keyboard has to be up for the keyboard to work. However, these are apps that were made not anticipating keyboard entry, and are minor concerns. The fact that I can now keep up in an IRC conversation, or write a long e-mail, is just so awesome.

It works, it really really works! Now I have both BT keyboard and BT GPS on my ipod touch! Merry Christmas early! Hallelujah!

This looks like a good portable keyboard choice

http://www.avalive.com/productDetail.php?pid=43579

i love it.
works great. now i can leave me macbook at home, sometimes.

This would make the backpack lighter. for a cramped seat in a lecture hall this would avoid a lot of clutter. now to make a keyboard and ipod integrated stand out of cardboard....

Why is a jailbroken iPhone / Ipod Touch having more fun with much more useful apps! Really, this sucks big time. I would love to use a keyboard with my i-devices, why can't Apple get a grip and stop being sooooooooo controlling and give us some useful functionality. If they are not careful, they will find that more and more people will move to other devices that are NOT stuck in the dark ages. Really. I love my iPhone but looking down the road when the droids and palm phone improve - and they will improve, I will have to ask myself why I'm still using an iPhone when I can do soooo much more with phone X. Don't ruin a great thing SJ, get with the PROGRAM.

FINALLY! A Reason to jail break!!

I have been waiting for this since I switched from my PalmTreo to an iPhone. on the PalmTreo I had loads of choices for small cool foldable Bluetooth external keyboards and that was FIVE years ago !!

Like this one: http://tinyurl.com/yca46oh

Bring it on!

I've been waiting 2.5 years for someone to add bluetooth keyboard support to the iPhone. I've been hanging onto my Sierra Stowaway for just such an occasion. There have been way too many times when I've needed to type a lengthy response to an email on my iPhone and cursed the tiny keyboard.

If I have to jailbreak to get it, this is a compelling reason.

http://keyboard.ringwald.ch/Welcome.html