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How-To: Use iPhone as an external keyboard for your iPad

August 9, 2011 by Dusan Belic - 1 Comment

External Keyboard for iPhone
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Presuming you’re an iUser with both the iPhone and iPad, you may want to use your smartphone to control your tablet. There’s an app for that which can remotely control several iPad apps from the iPhone.

Called External Keyboard, it allows you to surf the web from the iPhone while getting the pages to appear on the big screen of iPad. The 99-cent app must be running on both devices and once that’s on place you’ll be able to pick which fields in the browser you’d like to type and take it from there.

In addition, External Keyboard can also be used for typing emails, which in my opinion, is the better way to use it.

Unfortunately that’s where the app’s functionality stops and we have Apple to blame for imposing restrictions in the iOS SDK. Hopefully the upcoming iOS 5 will provide additional features to developers, allowing them to implement remote control-like functionality system-wide. Guess we’ll have all the answers (regarding iOS 5) within a month or so.

External Keyboard ($0.99) [iTunes link]

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