Nuu Mini Key: An iPhone Sliding QWERTY

If you don't mind some pocket-strain.

Sep 6 2010, 12:22pm CDT | by Robert Evans

If you'd like to soil your iPhone's elegant body with a fat, clumsy extension that adds in a neat backlit sliding keyboard, you'll soon be able to. Users who purchase the style for substance (Engadget). And while any true geek is willing to go with ugly if it gets the job done better, the Mini Key just might have too much of the latter to ever be practical.

The keyboard connects via Bluetooth, which may lead to some lag issues in the launch version. The lack of an additional battery pack in there is definitely a downer.

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