Will your phone spend most of its time in your pocket or at home, and only needs rudimentary protection? A good clear case is always a solid choice, especially if you pick one with reinforced corners and perhaps a nice looking design. Should you buy a clear gel case, a stylish leather wallet folio, or a big and bulky rugged cover? Each choice has its own advantages and disadvantages, and your choice of case should reflect what you need from your case and how you're going to use your phone. Of course, when you're buying a case, the question is always 'which one?' There's a large number of case manufacturers out there, and even more styles of cases to boot. So if you can't get enough of the iPhone 12, buy your case today, and while you're at it, check out the best Prime Day Apple deals too. But never one to look a gift horse in the mouth, Amazon already has a huge range of iPhone 12 cases ready to buy, today on Prime Day. But apparently no-one told Apple, because the Cupertino, California giant has decided to steal Amazon's thunder by announcing the highly anticipated iPhone 12 range. Totallee’s $39 lightweight MagSafe case keeps a tight grip on your iPhoneĭon’t worry, iPhone 12 owners: MagSafe PopSockets are coming soonĬatalyst’s new Total Protection case makes your iPhone 12 completely washableĪmazon's big day has arrived, and the Prime Day deals are flying out left and right. This half-sized micro-keyboard is a dream come true for PC gaming on the go IPhone 15 Pro overheating? Apple is (finally) on the case Cramped keys due to portrait orientation.Charging cable has Micro USB and Lightning.The Typo will be available beginning Jan. If it could charge with your iPhone, had a better place Home button, and a little more breathing room around the keys, it might be worth the investment, but for its planned $100 price, only die hard keyboard lovers with a lot of disposable income should dare. I’d love a good physical keyboard for the iPhone (or an Android), but the Typo isn’t it – at least, not yet. Without a way to dual-charge, there’s a good chance you’ll forget to top off your keyboard and it will die on you in the wild, leading to a particularly nasty situation where you’d have to revert to touch typing. My unit came with a very cool charging cable that could convert between a Lightning charger (for iPhone) and Micro USB (for Typo), but the cable didn’t allow you to charge both your keyboard and phone at once. Instead, it runs on its own internal battery for power.

Unlike a Mophie Juicepack-like case, the Typo doesn’t plug directly into your Lightning connector. Perhaps the worst part about the Typo (at least in its prototype phase), is that you have to charge it separately from your phone. It needs power, but doesn’t like to share Ironically, using the Typo lead to a dramatic increase in my own typos.īecause the Typo attaches to the bottom of an already long phone, when you type, the device is very top heavy, which could lead to some falls. The keys have a snap like a BlackBerry keyboard has, but without a little more width to spread the keys out, it’s difficult to type accurately. The buttons are very small, and very plasticky. Because it attaches to the bottom of the iPhone in vertical orientation, it’s still cramped in by the thinness of the iPhone. If Apple’s touch keyboard is tough to type on because of its size, then the Typo is maddening. Optimally, a keyboard like this needs to incorporate the Home button into a more prominent, easy-to-press, space. You press the Home button more than almost anything else on an iPhone. I’d often forget where it is, or press the wrong button in a pinch. Image used with permission by copyright holderĪfter some investigating, I discovered that there is a small Home button on the Typo, but it’s a tiny little button in the lower right – no bigger than any other key.

The first time I tried to pair it, I already had it on the iPhone, which rendered me without a Home button at all.

Pairing the Typo via Bluetooth was easy enough, but it’s difficult to get used to not having a Home button, which the Typo covers. It’s a solid little keyboard in many respects, and possibly the thinnest keyboard attachment I’ve ever seen, but it has a few nagging issues. I like keyboards, and still lament the day I had to give up the nice slide-out QWERTY on the original Motorola Droid, but the Typo isn’t for me.

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