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Nov 08

Keyboard-Dock for iPhone Has Media Keys, Controls PC, Mac

Posted in: Accessories and Peripherals, ios, iPhone, keyboard, Today's Chili

The WOWKeys keyboard from Omnio, an Apple-certified iPhone dock, manages to beat out Apple’s own offerings in almost every way. The keyboard features a bay on the right-side, where a number-pad would usually sit, into which your iPhone slides. From there, you can proceed in two ways.

First, and most obvious, is that you now have a hardware keyboard for your iPhone, giving you an iOS version of Asus’ Eee keyboard, only for $100 instead of $600 (not including the iPhone, of course). There are a slew of special keys dedicated to the iPhone, including volume, display-off,brightness, media keys, keyboard toggle and a home-screen button. Even Apple’s own Bluetooth keyboard can manage all those.

The second option is to hook this up to a Mac or PC (via USB-cable) and let the iPhone take on some extra duties. Coupled with any of a number of third-party apps, you can turn the iPhone into a trackpad, number-pad or full-on remote for your computer. You could of course do this without the WOWKeys, but locking the trackpad to the keyboard makes sense, and it’ll also charge the iPhone as you use it. Flipping between these two modes is done by toggling a switch.

The WOWKeys should be available in Korea soon for the equivalent of $105. Start harassing your friendly, neighborhood gray-importer now.

IPhone PC keyboards and fusion [AVING via the Engadget]

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