Was Dennis Duffy Right? Is Technology Cyclical?
Clicks Keyboard has been trying to bring back keyboards for a couple of years now. As a fan of old Palm devices like the Palm Pre, I do miss keyboards on my phone and did buy the Pixel version of their keyboard case. I wouldn’t say it made me more productive but it was a lot of fun to use. Or at least it was until Star Trek: Fleet Command decided that it couldn’t deal with physical keyboards (whether they were attached via USB like the Clicks Keyboard or via Bluetooth) when they updated their game engine. Since I tend to play that game a lot on my Pixel 9, it didn’t make much sense to continue using it since as much fun as it was, the Clicks Keyboard makes my Pixel huge.
Still it’s nice to see Clicks keep trying to bring phone keyboards back. And are double and even tripling down with not one but two keyboard devices. The Clicks Power Keyboard attaches to your phone via magsafe and works via Bluetooth it’s an attractively ungainly little beast which appeals to my gadget nerdery. It has a battery to power the keyboard and charge your phone. And it can even switch between different devices with its bluetooth connection.
Clicks is even trying to revive the Blackberry with their Clicks Communicator. I was a Palm user back in the day, not a Blackberry addict but it’s still a pretty appealing device which bring together messages from a variety of apps into one screen and provides an improved keyboard for responding to these messages. They are positioning it as a “companion device” to be used along your regular smartphone. It also adds features like a microSD card reader and 3.5mm headphone jack which have been banished from more traditional smartphones.
Clicks was founded by Michael Fisher, a Youtuber who calls himself, “Mr. Mobile” and whose channel includes a long running retrospective series called, “When Phones Were Fun.” Whatever happens with his company, I can at least applaud Mr. Fisher for trying to make phones fun again.
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Is this wise? I am clearly alien.
That’s what I’m counting on.
[Elevator opens]
Take me to your leader.
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