We had reported last week about a hacker who had taken his jailbroken iPhone and hacked it by wiring it up to a physical keyboard.
Things seem to be going out of control as we now have another example.
Dr. Ralf Ackermann has successfully paired an Apple iPhone with an Xbox 360 Chatpad using a low-power XBee wireless module.
Dr. Ralf Ackerman has paired the iPhone with an Xbox 360 Chatpad, using a XBee wireless module. Xbox 360 Chatpad is a small keyboard suitable for messaging in Windows Live Messenger on Xbox 360.
As you might have guessed he has been able to achieve this using a jailbroken iPhone. The hack is still work in progress and Dr. Ackerman plans to use a VNC server running on the iPhone to feed keyboard input to any iPhone app.
As you can see from the setup, it definitely doesn't seem to be for the faint hearted.
Actually, if Apple ever needed a sign to release an iPhone with a physical keyboard then this has to be it.
Its not because we think the iPhone needs a physical keyboard (if you have used it long enough you will not feel the need), or we fear it might lose market share to TMobile's G1; its because we don't want the iPhone to lose its tag as the Jesusphone.
Folks, what do you think?
[via Engadget]
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THIS IS A PURE EXAMPLE OF EXTREME BORDEM. I MEAN DOES IT REALLY NEED A PHYSICAL KEYBOARD, THATS THE WHOLE REASON PEOPLE BOUGHT THE DAM THING.
I KNOW WHAT THE PROBLEM IS, HIS FINGERS ARE TOO DAM FAT TO HIT ON KEY AT A TIME……..
WHAT SENSE DOES IT MAKE TO BUY A TOUCH SCREEN PHONE, THEN COMPLAIN THAT IT NEEDS A PHYSICAL KEYBOARD?
IF YOU FEEL THE NEED TO HAVE A PHYSICAL KEYBOARD, GO BUY A DAMN FLIP PHONE…
BUT KUDOS ON THE EFFORT, ITS REALLY SEMI-IMPRESSIVE…
It's fairly impressive not a bad idea to get the apple bluetooth wireless keyboard to work just for kicks… but its really just that- for kicks. Now old caps lock over here needs to cool it, its just a guy trying an idea that played out in his head out in real life, successfully at that. I'm impressed- calm down young summa.
Impressive, but I'd be even more impressed if he made the iphone work as the keyboard for texting on the xbox. would be useful to.