{"id":1168,"date":"2016-01-07T17:32:14","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T16:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eskerahn.dk\/?p=1168"},"modified":"2018-10-17T18:16:45","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T16:16:45","slug":"new-qwerty-keyboards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eskerahn.dk\/?p=1168","title":{"rendered":"Stand-alone QWERTY keyboards for phones&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an attempt to get out of the horrible Ios experience, I have ordered a couple of different stand-alone bluetooth keyboards<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eskerahn.dk\/?p=1168\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1170\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1170\" src=\"https:\/\/eskerahn.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DNPJ0011-21-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"DNPJ0011-2[1]\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eskerahn.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DNPJ0011-21-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/eskerahn.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DNPJ0011-21-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/eskerahn.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DNPJ0011-21.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/eskerahn.dk\/?p=1168\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1172\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1169\" src=\"https:\/\/eskerahn.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/571-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"$_57[1]\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eskerahn.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/571-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/eskerahn.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/571-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/eskerahn.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/571-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/eskerahn.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/571.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1172\" src=\"https:\/\/eskerahn.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/KGrHqFlsEFtr9iBP2jzuOLeg60_571-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"$(KGrHqF,!lsE+F+tr)9iBP2jzuOLeg~~60_57[1]\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eskerahn.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/KGrHqFlsEFtr9iBP2jzuOLeg60_571-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/eskerahn.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/KGrHqFlsEFtr9iBP2jzuOLeg60_571-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/eskerahn.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/KGrHqFlsEFtr9iBP2jzuOLeg60_571-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/eskerahn.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/KGrHqFlsEFtr9iBP2jzuOLeg60_571-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/eskerahn.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/KGrHqFlsEFtr9iBP2jzuOLeg60_571.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The whole idea in looking for a DETACHED keyboard rather than a keyboard case, is that IF I could get used to using that, despite the inconvenience of two separate device, I would be able to replace my Iphone with something less bad.<\/p>\n<p>I had my hopes up high for the Blackberry Priv, but I&#8217;m afraid it might prove the worst of the two worlds physically. Both too large for one hand operation (for me) and with too tiny keys for my fingers. (See <a href=\"https:\/\/eskerahn.dk\/?p=1103\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this post and comments<\/a>) But I will await taking a final decision until I get a chance to get my hands on one.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So I ordered three not too huge Bluetooth keyboards on ebay just before solstice, and the two first has arrived, and works as can be expected.<\/p>\n<p>The key-print on the first small one (40g) is clearly not related to Ios, and one of the national Danish letters are even harder to get at than on the case-keyboards (see <a href=\"https:\/\/eskerahn.dk\/?p=554\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>The second one (70g), with full qwerty, acts like a standard pc-keyboard and thus without the plenitude of Shift\/Alt\/Fn\/Ctrl combinations available on the case-keyboards. Thus making some of the &#8216;weirder&#8217; symbols harder to get at. But the common ones much easier to access &#8211; especially the national Danish characters &#8211; though when choosing a Danish layout, some of the print on the keys are no longer correct.<\/p>\n<p>The third foldable one with build in light have not arrived yet.<\/p>\n<p>The second one &#8220;IPazzPort&#8221; is rather thick (12mm), but to my surprise, that is because it is powered by a &#8216;standard&#8217; user-replaceable BL-4C &#8211; known from many old Nokia phones, so I guess the design of this is quite old. When taking it apart, it was clear that a version with additional functionality existed, and a bit of searching confirmed that it does indeed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebay.co.uk\/itm\/360441078226\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">exist<\/a>. Including backlight &#8211; So it this proves the most usable, I certainly will buy the version with backlit keys (also).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My hopes lies mainly on the foldable one if it does not prove too clumsy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an attempt to get out of the horrible Ios experience, I have ordered a couple of different stand-alone bluetooth keyboards<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phonesphablets","category-various-tech-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eskerahn.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eskerahn.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eskerahn.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eskerahn.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eskerahn.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1168"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/eskerahn.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1191,"href":"https:\/\/eskerahn.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168\/revisions\/1191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eskerahn.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eskerahn.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eskerahn.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}