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11-11-2008, 07:32 AM
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets (http://www.engadget.com/category/gadgets/), Peripherals (http://www.engadget.com/category/peripherals/), Wireless (http://www.engadget.com/category/wireless/)
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This hack isn't for the faint of heart. In fact, it's more a demonstration of Dr. Ralf Ackermann's technical badassery than anything practical. But its as good as it gets until Apple achieves a state of sanity and flips the switch on its Bluetooth stack to finally allow us the option of pairing a Bluetooth keyboard to the iPhone. The setup starts with a cobbled together Xbox 360 Chatpad (http://www.engadget.com/tag/chatpad) and XBee (http://www.engadget.com/tag/xbee) wireless module. The good doctor then takes a Jailbroken phone (naturally) and attaches another wireless XBee module to the iPhone's jury-rigged serial port housed in an Akku enclosure. A work in progress, it will ultimately rely upon a VNC server running on the iPhone to feed keyboard input to any application of your choosing. See Apple, this is the corner (http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/05/jailbroken-iphone-3g-gets-external-keyboard-says-hello/) of desperation that you've backed us into.iPhone and 360 Chatpad hacked into a wireless mess of need (http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/11/iphone-and-360-chatpad-hacked-into-a-wireless-mess-of-need/) originally appeared on Engadget (http://www.engadget.com) on Tue, 11 Nov 2008 05:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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This hack isn't for the faint of heart. In fact, it's more a demonstration of Dr. Ralf Ackermann's technical badassery than anything practical. But its as good as it gets until Apple achieves a state of sanity and flips the switch on its Bluetooth stack to finally allow us the option of pairing a Bluetooth keyboard to the iPhone. The setup starts with a cobbled together Xbox 360 Chatpad (http://www.engadget.com/tag/chatpad) and XBee (http://www.engadget.com/tag/xbee) wireless module. The good doctor then takes a Jailbroken phone (naturally) and attaches another wireless XBee module to the iPhone's jury-rigged serial port housed in an Akku enclosure. A work in progress, it will ultimately rely upon a VNC server running on the iPhone to feed keyboard input to any application of your choosing. See Apple, this is the corner (http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/05/jailbroken-iphone-3g-gets-external-keyboard-says-hello/) of desperation that you've backed us into.iPhone and 360 Chatpad hacked into a wireless mess of need (http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/11/iphone-and-360-chatpad-hacked-into-a-wireless-mess-of-need/) originally appeared on Engadget (http://www.engadget.com) on Tue, 11 Nov 2008 05:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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