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This is cool but I wish I could just have a 75% portable Bluetooth keyboard. I can't justify buying a foldable phone with a million screens but would love a Psion like keyboard with 4 and a half almost full size rows that I can slide out from below my phone with no folding and just use directly without getting in the way of my rear camera. Has anyone seen anything like that? I am really happy with laptop scissor switch rubber dome keyboard profiles, I loved the Psion but I just want a Bluetooth keyboard. Sorry it's not directly related!


I might be wrong, but in this case I think the 75% refers to the layout, not the physical size of the keys.

https://www.keyboard.university/100-courses/keyboard-sizes-l...


It's a percentage of the 'total number of keys,' insofar that a 'normal' keyboard is a 100% keyboard.


Oh okay, I guess I want 65% then in terms of the keys it has! Thanks.


Those exist!

I googled 65% bluetooth keyboard and this is the first result:

https://www.cherryamericas.com/mx-lp-2-1-compact-wireless

No idea if it's any good or not.

In my experience, only Logitech seems to have figured out decent battery life in wireless keyboards. Even with the lighting effects turned off, most mechanical keyboards have terrible battery life (often less than a week).

My gripe is that there are lots and lots of great small keyboards out there being made by hobbyists and small companies, but none of them offer scissor switch options! I'd really like something closer to a modern Apple laptop keyboard. I've been using a Lenovo Trackpoint II which is close, but I don't really like it.


Thanks, I really want something more like a Psion keyboard but a tad smaller to fit in the dimensions I have available, there is no room for any wasted space but I want to be able to input shell commands easily and dislike the idea I'd have to fold and unfold a keyboard to have a good typing experience. I already have a poor quality rubber dome keyboard with no scissor switch mechanism so it's not like a laptop experience like on a Psion.


Best I can offer is a Blackberry-style non-sliding mono-slabic configuration or is it conflagration? I'm not affiliated in any way nor do I vouch for this just sharing info. https://www.clicks.tech/


Thanks, it's interesting but I use shell scripting on Android and need to type the pipe characters and so on fairly quickly.




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