Does FP5 have wireless charging? For external keyboard from Clicks)

Hello,

I a searching for a smartphone with a keyboard (like the old Blackberry and other phones), but they are few and far to find. I found a keyboard for wireless charging that one can actually use as a keyboard (Clicks: Clicks Power Keyboard: One keyboard. All your smart screens. ). Would this work with a FP5 or FP6?

You can probably use the keyboard functionality, but due to the absence of that feature in the phone, it won’t charge from that keyboard.

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This not only requires wireless charging but also magnets (Qi2, MagSafe). This is not a case, it’s more like an accessory that magnetizes to the back of your phone. No Fairphone has had magnets in the back to attach accessories.

From what I know, you can buy a “MagSafe magnet array” that you can stick onto the back of the phone (maybe even the inside on the FP, since it’s easily removable), but your milage may vary.

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Thank you both for your responses. So I looked into these MagSafe magnet array things, and I still wonder if I need more than this. I do not want a wireless charger, but I do not know how to charge the keyboard itself.
Right now I will reconsider what to do, since I need a phone for my partner who needs a physical keyboard with the phone (and not an external USB board I mean). I always prefer FP above other options, and I thought maybe a secondhand one with this keyboard (to make it payable). But it seems not very handy. Or at the Murena shop they sell Pixel with Murena / e/, but I do not like a google phone (and then I could combine it with this keyboard, if it comes available again, and if Murena has Pixel 9: Clicks Keyboard case gives Google Pixel real buttons ).

From the pictures on Clicks website it looks like the keyboard has a USB-C port that can be used to charge it (it won’t charge the Fairphone though).

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That is good news :slight_smile:, thank you

If you don’t need wireless charging then a Bluetooth external keyboard should connect to the FP5 just fine.

Wireless charging is for battery charging a phone, FP5 doesn’t have it, but my old phone did and I rarely used it, it was excruciatingly slow. I don’t miss it!

Bluetooth keyboards work fine, just pair in bluetooth and they work immediately. Just tried it with an ancient one designed for use with a tablet.

I also have a (super rare) joystick (Blueline accessible joystick) that I use instead of a mouse or touchscreen. It also connects over Bluetooth to use as an “alternative input device’.

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Thank you, yes that is a solution, for home use, but on the road/outside a bluetooth keyboard is a bit much to take with you. I have seen small foldable ones, maybe that is an option, thanks again!

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