Iphone - portable keyboard recommendations

Is there any kind of dockable portable keyboard or wireless keyboard you can use with your iphone? Wouldn't a bluetooth keyboard for mac's work with it? I want to have a portable keyboard so when I am working remotely, if I want to text or send emails I can use a keyboard and not the touch screen. I don't dock my work computer with my iphone so I need the keyboard solely for my iphone device.
If there is nothing someone needs to get on that.

I agree Anastasia.
I'm just about to ditch my ageing pocket PC, dodgy Telstra mobile phone and ancient iPod and replace them with an iPhone. But I'm very disappointed that there's no equivalent of the portable keyboard I use with my pocket PC - nor, it seems, any prospect of one being developed any time soon. I'm sure there are still quite a few of us who like to touch type.

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Hello, BrSlash.
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Try closing all opening applications and power cycle the device. Once this is done test to see if the English keyboard corrects itself.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5137
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I have not been able to get the built-in iPhone 4S keyboard dictation to work. I talk into it, then tap "Done", then the phone "thinks" for a few seconds (the purple dots pulse and I see the network icon on the top bar spinning) and then nothing happens.

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Their support model (unless you're prepared to fork out more money, I suppose) consists entirely of searching their inadequate knowledgebase; this contain only help articles, not bug reports along these lines.
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