Clicks Communicator and keyboards
Discussion
Up to now, Clicks, fronted by Mr Mobile/Michael Fisher from YouTube, have made cases with physical keyboards built into them. Nice but they have to be built for specific phone models, and it makes a phone a few inches longer (quiet at the back) so you end up with a big boy in your pocket (I said quiet!).
Yesterday they announced two new things. A Bluetooth magsafe/magnetic ring attachment battery pack with a sliding keyboard, and a physical keyboard android handset. Looks like a decent modern update to a Blackberry, and the handset price is $500 so not silly money when there are phones well over £1000. It's meant as a second device, not a main phone. The Clicks keyboard can also be used as a keyboard for tablets, smart TV, Fire/Apple/other TV boxes, VR and AR headsets.
Here's a very Apple video announcement.
Yesterday they announced two new things. A Bluetooth magsafe/magnetic ring attachment battery pack with a sliding keyboard, and a physical keyboard android handset. Looks like a decent modern update to a Blackberry, and the handset price is $500 so not silly money when there are phones well over £1000. It's meant as a second device, not a main phone. The Clicks keyboard can also be used as a keyboard for tablets, smart TV, Fire/Apple/other TV boxes, VR and AR headsets.
Here's a very Apple video announcement.
I really wish you had not posted that, and I really, really wish I had not seen it…
I was a full-on Crackberry addict - if you snapped me in half, I would have had Blackberry running through to my core. It started with my 7230 back in 2003, and migrated through to the very end with the Pasport, when I had to switch to Apple. The thing I miss most of my beloved BlackBerry, the keyboard.
I flirted with the concept of the Clicks keyboard, but shyed away because of the length of overall device when paired with the iPhone. I wasn’t aware a telephone was incoming.
Decisions, decisions - it will be interesting to see the reviews.
As an aside, does anyone know if you could use redundant BlackBerry handsets around the house, connected to the WiFi without the SIM?
I was a full-on Crackberry addict - if you snapped me in half, I would have had Blackberry running through to my core. It started with my 7230 back in 2003, and migrated through to the very end with the Pasport, when I had to switch to Apple. The thing I miss most of my beloved BlackBerry, the keyboard.
I flirted with the concept of the Clicks keyboard, but shyed away because of the length of overall device when paired with the iPhone. I wasn’t aware a telephone was incoming.
Decisions, decisions - it will be interesting to see the reviews.
As an aside, does anyone know if you could use redundant BlackBerry handsets around the house, connected to the WiFi without the SIM?
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