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Are there any bluetooth keyboards that work with the iPhone? If so, that would be a killer combination.

I'd picture the best thing to be a little device attached to the power connector that projected one of those laser keyboards. I don't know how miniaturizable those are at this point, though; it might help that the motion recognition can all be done in software, but then, that might not be the chunkiest part.

Someone could do a port of the Dasher text input system utilizing the motion sensor.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasher

To see it in action, a Google Tech Talk:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5078334075080674416

What I'm interested in is how well the touch keyboard works with SSH. To anyone that has an iPhone: is it good enough to use for anything but the simplest commands?

I chat on IRC with mine quite often when out and about, I find it fast and easy... Although some of the 'corrections' are funny. Apple corrects "twitter" to "twitted" for example.

Does the spell-checker learn, if you correct it manually?

yep it does. You only need to correct it the once as far as I've seen

Can you have it unlearn something if you give it a wrong correction?

Unfortunately doesn't look like it, if you make a mistake you have to reset the dictionary :/ Settings->General->Reset->Keyboard dictionary

Which is kinda a pain if you make a mistake ;)

Old topic, but:

"Apple says that words you’ve added to the dictionary actually age. If you stop using some custom term, the iPhone gradually learns to forget it. That’s handy behavior if you never intended for that word to become part of the dictionary to begin with (that is, it was a mistake)."

http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/06/27/iphone-keyboard-se...

Of course the alternative is to install an ajax ssh client on a server, and use it from safari over https... ?

The better alternative is to jailbreak your iphone and install ssh, a shell, python and many other free unix utilities you may want. I don't know why people are even voting this up.

Absolutely! For folks who are technical enough to care about ssh'ing from their iPhones, a jailbreak is such a no-brainer. There's so little cost involved in it now with QuickPwn and stuff..

I personally don't jailbreak because

1) It's my main form of communication 2) Apple killed jailbroken iPhones once, they could do it again 3) I can't afford to buy an un-subsidized 3G iPhone yet.

When any of those three changes, I'll jailbreak; 'til then, I'd rather pay a few bucks and keep warranteed reliability.

It's also my main form of communication. You're pretty safe jailbreaking, worst case scenario: you don't update the firmware until reading whats up on a couple of websites.

think about using the consoleFISH on www.serfish.com

Why would anyone pay for this there is at least 2 terminals which are open sourced on jailbroken phones.

Because not everyone wants to jailbreak their phone and risk bricking it when Apple pushes volatile updates? Personally, this is why I have an Openmoko, so I can change what I want whenever I want, and when the phone bricks, not only is it my fault, but it has a failsafe bootloader that allows me to reflash the phone over USB as much as I want...

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