Nintendo’s new DS game comes with a Bluetooth keyboard that’ll work with your phone

Nintendo just put out a new gaming bundle for their Battle & Get! Pokemon Typing DS game that packages a Bluetooth keyboard and Bluetooth adapter (since the DS doesn’t have built-in Bluetooth) along with the game. Yeah, not everyone’s into Pokemon (we’re not), and a lot of people don’t even own a Nintendo DS (we don’t), but here’s why this thing looks really interesting: you can use that wireless keyboard with your smartphone as long as it has wireless keyboard support. That means it’ll work with iOS and Android phones. That’s interesting to us; seriously, ever since we’ve made the switch to a full touchscreen phone, typing a simple message on a virtual keyboard has proven to be quite a chore. And it looks good. Nintendo didn’t release pricing details yet, but the game bundle is due out in Japan in April. We just hope they decide to put out a stand-alone keyboard without the game bundle. That could save some of us non-DS owners a few bucks.