Sometime soon, I’ll share more about Keynote on iPad, which in itself is just lovely and wonderful and incredibly productive — but what really blew me away recently was the addition of Keynote Remote on my iPhone to control the presentation. I was in a training room where the only connection to an LCD projector was via wire in the back of the room, and as I was using my iPad, I couldn’t easily give the presentation from the back of the room. I remembered the Keynote Remote app, and 99 cents later, I was scrolling through my iPad presentation from my iPhone.

Quick notes:

The iPhone and iPad worked perfectly in a test scenario at home, but in the training room, there were a few instances of dropped connections. Not sure how that happened since both devices were on the same wi-fi network AND they were linked Bluetooth. But I was able to pair them up again in a matter of seconds.
The Keynote Remote app is great because, in landscape mode, you can see both the slide you’re projecting and the next one. That said, this app could do SO MUCH MORE than a few functions. How about a blank option, a mouse, a pointer than you control by touching your fingertip to the projected slide on the iPhone?