> because trying to do SSH without an actual keyboard is really frustrating and no, I don't want to buy a keyboard for my iPad.
A little OT, but reading your comment I remembered how I used to SSH to my home-server using my ex-wife's Nokia E71 sometimes around 2008-2009, when we were going out with friends and I was getting bored. That phone was pure genius, it had a nice keyboard, no need to purchase any SSH client, you could write Python code for it (I was always too lazy for that, though) and it was just pleasant to use.
I've used SSH on mobile devices, on both iOS and Android, and I wouldn't describe either experience as pleasant - at best it felt like pulling teeth. This is mainly because of the small screen (80x25 would feel like a blessing on a phone) and the terrible keyboard.
Maybe a physical keyboard would be better, but I doubt it. On a desktop or a laptop I type in SSH just about as quick as I can think (sometimes faster :p). On a phone, it's way slower, and when I can type quick enough, the latency over wireless networks is slow enough to make it tiresome.
The E71 was both great and maddening.
The keyboard was good. Being ably to write Python on it was great. The music player and camera were junk though. Worse than the equivalent on many lower end phones.
A little OT, but reading your comment I remembered how I used to SSH to my home-server using my ex-wife's Nokia E71 sometimes around 2008-2009, when we were going out with friends and I was getting bored. That phone was pure genius, it had a nice keyboard, no need to purchase any SSH client, you could write Python code for it (I was always too lazy for that, though) and it was just pleasant to use.