{"id":314186,"date":"2010-02-12T19:33:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-13T00:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds.phonedog.com:\/\/7f18472442c427915564262db695b4ea"},"modified":"2010-02-12T19:33:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-13T00:33:00","slug":"article-macworld-2010-iphone-keyboard-and-apps-apps-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/314186","title":{"rendered":"ARTICLE: MacWorld 2010: iPhone Keyboard and Apps, Apps, Apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/r.phonedog.com\/shared\/images\/2010\/2\/93846-1_memorph.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"515\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Aaron, Adriana and I headed back to MacWorld for a few hours today and my primary focus was to check out the Mobile Apps Showcase. While I was chatting with the folks from QuickOffice, YouTube sensation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/Itsmemorphious\" >Itsmemorphious<\/a>&nbsp;came over to say Hi. It&#8217;s always a thrill to meet readers\/viewers of the site at a show, and it&#8217;s a double thrill when one of those PhoneDog fans happens to be a blogger or vlogger themselves. Carlos knows his iPhone\/iPod Touch cases and proved to be a super nice, infectiously energetic guy in person. So definitely hop over to his YouTube channel for his take on MacWorld.<\/p>\n<p>Unless he cut out the video footage in which he says I&#8217;m better looking than iJustine. Honestly, he said it. On camera. That&#8217;d better make it into his MacWorld coverage &#8230;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the apps that caught my eye today included the aforementioned QuickOffice, Runmeter, and Farm Frenzy 2. In short, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quickoffice.com\/quickoffice_connect_suite_iphone\/\" >QuickOffice Connect<\/a> is a full featured office suite for iPhone OS that offers local file storage and access to cloud-based documents including Google Docs. QuickOffice was also a MacWorld Best in Show winner. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abvio.com\/runmeter\/\" >Runmeter<\/a> looks to be a serious challenger to my GPS fitness app of choice, RunKeeper Pro. And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alawar.com\/game\/farm-frenzy-2\/\" >Farm Frenzy 2<\/a> is a Tycoon-like game for the agriculture set. Look for reviews and\/or videos on all three apps in the near future.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/r.phonedog.com\/shared\/images\/2010\/2\/93846-1abiPhoneKB.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And then there was the iPhone Keyboard. This thing may or may not ever see the light of day, but it was on display in a non-functional, semi-finished prototype form at SKN&#8217;s booth. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xskn.com\/\" >SKN<\/a> makes &#8220;Shortcut Skins&#8221; (keyboard overlays) for Apple keyboards, and they&#8217;ve also got a customized iPad keyboard dock on the way that promises to include an iPad app to allow users to program shortcuts to various buttons on the keyboard.<\/p>\n<p>But perhaps more interesting was the iPhone keyboard, which is an Apple Bluetooth keyboard mated to a metal iPhone stand. The prototype and product renderings all showed overlay-style icons printed onto the keys, and an SKN rep told me that he actually buys keyboards direct from Apple and modifies them for resale as SKN products. He&#8217;s basically hoping that iPhone OS 3.2 will open up iPhone to pairing with hardware keyboards since it will do so for iPad with the forthcoming Apple iPad Keyboard Dock.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In other words, the iPhone Keyboard might happen. Or it might not. It&#8217;s kinda up to Apple. If it does happen, it won&#8217;t be cheap &#8211; we&#8217;re looking at a price point of around $179 for the wireless keyboard\/stand.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/PiY7lnPe_KF5lIjZGJ4XvAjJZug\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/PiY7lnPe_KF5lIjZGJ4XvAjJZug\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/PiY7lnPe_KF5lIjZGJ4XvAjJZug\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/PiY7lnPe_KF5lIjZGJ4XvAjJZug\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/phonedog_cellphoneblog\/~4\/SEhhwNmjRWo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron, Adriana and I headed back to MacWorld for a few hours today and my primary focus was to check out the Mobile Apps Showcase. While I was chatting with the folks from QuickOffice, YouTube sensation Itsmemorphious&nbsp;came over to say Hi. It&#8217;s always a thrill to meet readers\/viewers of the site at a show, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":671,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-314186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}