Now being sold at $99 from Typo’s website, ironically, many people are still not excited about the new development. Typo 2 is only intended for iPhone 6 (not suited with iPhone 6 Plus) and compatible with iPhone 5 and iPhone 5s. Looking closer, it still retains the QWERTY pad but only few keys have moved out of their previous places from the first Typo while a backlight is the newest feature. Typo said the Typo 2’s keyboard original concept comes from the iPhone’s touchpad itself. In November, however, the Typo came back not with a vengeance but with a slightly modified case. The San Francisco court can’t do anything but put up an injunction against Typo in selling the case and Typo seemingly guilty had no choice but to follow the ruling. And judging from critics’ perspective, comparing the two keyboards, the Typo really resembles BlackBerry’s. But days after, Blackberry was suing Typo pointing that the keyboard is a “blatant infringement against BlackBerry’s iconic keyboard”. This is a slip-in case keyboard that fits right and connects to the iPhone 5/5S through Bluetooth. In January 2014, the first Typo model was released. Knowing that Blackberry is trying to revive itself even offering to buy iPhones in exchange for its new Passport, it is now telling the world that even Apple wants its keyboard. The history of Typo is somewhat fascinating. Last January BB has filed a lawsuit against Typo, the company that manufactures keyboards specifically for certain iPhone models. But what if somebody said it has keyboard for the iPhone and it looked like a BB’s keyboards? BB won’t like that, naturally. On the other hand, BB would not care if some smartphone manufacturers will be adapting the keyboards again. The traditional QWERTY keyboard is an iconic trademark of BB and although the company is struggling right now in competing against the Androids and smartphones with their touchscreen interface, the company believes keeping its keyboard provides them the uniqueness against the odds. Since many of us still dream of using the keyboards again but seemingly impossible as the smartphones are now occupying majority of the market that ultimately disposed the traditional keyboard, every mobile phone manufacturers are up for the touchscreens. It deliberately provides users the benefit of using a physical keyboard that a lot of people have missed after the introduction of the touchscreen smartphones. Typo 2 is the new keyboard case for iPhone 5/5s and 6 produced by Typo.
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