Adding BlackBerry-Style Keys to Your iPhone Just Got More Affordable

Keyboard shaper Akko has conscionable launched an iPhone keyboard lawsuit called MetaKey, proving that BlackBerry nostalgia is alive, well, and consenting to adhd inches to your smartphone's length.


Like Clicks' cases, the MetaKey lawsuit connects via USB-C and adds a QWERTY keyboard to the bottommost of the iPhone. However, priced astatine $59.99, it's fractional the outgo of the Clicks keyboard case, which launched successful January 2024 astatine $139.

The lawsuit features backlit keys and includes shortcuts for communal tasks similar accessing Siri, triggering voice-to-text, and entering numbers. There's besides a unsocial scrolling mode that converts the apical 2 rows of keys into ample scroll buttons for browsing societal media.

One of the applicable challenges of these benignant of keyboard cases is that they tin beryllium top-heavy. To code this, the MetaKey includes a removable 9-gram value that attaches to the backmost of the keyboard to amended equilibrium portion typing.

MagSafe-compatible and with a USB-C passthrough larboard for charging, the MetaKey is presently disposable for the iPhone 16 Pro Max successful black, white, and pink. An iPhone 17 Pro Max mentation is besides disposable successful black, orange, pink, blue, lavender, sage, and white, though immoderate of these are presently retired of stock.

For what it's worth, Clicks recently launched akin cases for iPhone 17 and iPhone 17 Pro starting astatine $139, with a 17 Pro Max mentation astatine $159.

The carnal keyboard lawsuit class is undoubtedly niche, but the MetaKey's little terms mightiness entreaty if you privation to effort retired the conception without committing to Clicks' premium pricing.
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