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?
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.
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).
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’.
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!