Comments on: eXtndr concept turns the iPhone into a Slider MID.

By: Timothy Kellar

Timothy Kellar — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 23:38:46 +0000

Great write up. The iPhone is truly revolutionary and I don’t like being without it. This time last year I had jumped in a pool with my iPhone and it was dead. I had to wait 10 days before I was able to buya new one. The phone I had was a cheap go phone. I really love all the games that can be downloaded to the iPhone. The best part about the iPhone to me is the ability to check emails on the go. Thanks for the information.

By: valto

valto — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 07:36:11 +0000

Having had my own iPhone now for months and seeing people really be so impressed with it, I have also come to conclusion that this really would help apple to sell more iPhones. One of the main sceptism is towards the lack of phycical keyboard and this would help those people to make the jump.

At the same time I think that many would eventually just leave this extndr behind after they would come familliar with the software keyboard on iPhone.

Ps. Written with iPhone

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just a gadget lover» Blogarchiv » last week roundup — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:03:55 +0000

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By: ecsk2

ecsk2 — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:09:49 +0000

Any of the available cases for the iPhone makes it bigger, and frankly in my opinion only better/nicer. As for camera there could be a hole like with any other cover available now.

By: startac

startac — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:55:38 +0000

To be sure, makes the iphone significantly thicker.

Also…what happens to the camera?

By: turn.self.off

turn.self.off — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:35:40 +0000

i wonder if not one would be better of in the long run if one did something like this for neo freerunner rather then iphone.

less jumping to flaming hoops held by apple at least…

By: ecsk2

ecsk2 — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:59:12 +0000

Since BT nor WIFI wouldn’t be very feasible for a number of reasons, one being the iPhone not supporting it, the second being the need for a battery.

So you are left with a “plugin” option, which could be done strictly physically speaking, and I don’t see it as very impossible from a technical standpoint. Hopefully *if* someone does this they would chose a better keyboard (layout/solution) than the all too common but not best QWERTY keyboards by HTC.

By: pyrek

pyrek — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:21:23 +0000

sdhc, host USB? Everything! Is it possible to make a desk docking station? I can’t see it now becouse I am at work using iPhone browser, he he.I wish to have VGA out and couple of USB ports for keyboard/mouse and external hard drive.

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 01:14:57 +0000

Greetings:

The best third party accessory for the iphone would be a mini LCD projector.

Think of all the Business presentations that would be done in bars at happy Hour, talk about a fast sale.

Regards Robert

By: Valto

Valto — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 23:43:40 +0000

No patents, just doing my best to push the markets forward

Anyhow, in my blog, rthe question is how would you extnd the hardware side of the iPhone? VGE, USB, SD, ?? those could be easily implemented in this setup with matching software. So what do you think would make sense to add to this?

Let’s hope some third party accessory makers for iPhone picks this up….

By: fixup

fixup — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:57:34 +0000

Yes I had that HP (not iPaq) PDA with PCMCIA/battery add-on, used for a CDPD modem, 14.4K from ATT for $30/mon. Plugging the CDPD modem into a HP Jornada 720 was much more useful.

By: turn.self.off

turn.self.off — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:14:35 +0000

interesting take on the whole thing.

i recall that ipaq jacket where one could stuff a pcmcia card in. imo that was a nice idea, but i guess it added to much bulk for regular use as a phone…

By: fixup

fixup — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:06:41 +0000

Is iPhone already not a MID or what? It is the small screen not the keyboard that’s missing. iPhone’s soft keyboard is better than any such hard thumb keyboards I’ve used so far (Treo, HTC, OQO…).

Mounting an iPhone into a chases with larger battery and screen is a good one though.

By: Mikey

Mikey — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:29:31 +0000

Awesome, they would sell millions!

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:59:54 +0000

Greetings:

Do you think that this blogger Valto has already sent patent pending doucements to the FCC.
Cause the concept is very cool.

Or may it be possible that Apple and Steve have already thought of this.

Regards Robert