Typo's Smartphone Keyboard Business Comes to an End Following BlackBerry Lawsuits

[mabhatter]

I can't believe BlackBerry is making such a fuss over this. BlackBerries are horrible anyway. I speak from repeated experience. They're slow and clunky, and not very intuitive.

It wasn't that long ago RIM was on the receiving end of "phone keyboard" lawsuits. As I recall RIM did the same thing, changing the shape of its keys, to avoid patents as well. Of course now that they've paid up and changed their stuff it's about money, not design principals.

 

[2457282]

The name of this company is a mistake. Surprised anyone would even by a keyboard case for the iPhone. However, I still looking for the perfect keyboard cover for my ipad. Maybe Apple will announce something next week. If not, Ryan should rename the company and work on a keyboard cover -- I have now tried 4 different one and am still in search, so the opportunity is there to do something amazing.

 

[Ihatefall]

I have seen 3 of these in the wild......everyone that had one was over 45. One was the regional CEO of our company, who only gave up his blackberry when they pulled out of Japan.

 

[OTACORB]

It's all good, it won't be long before Blackberry is out of business and gone too.

 

[gnasher729]

Don't understand this, now no one can make cellphones with physical keyboard except blackberry?

Nobody can make cellphones with physical keyboards that look like blackberry keyboards, except blackberry, or anyone buying a license from blackberry. They have a very recognisable design, which you cannot just copy. You are free to make a keyboard that looks different.

 

[CFreymarc]

This is pure vanity on the part of Blackberry. They have yet to believe their hardware business is washed up. If anything, the could have had a nice royalty out of this instead of a heavy handed infringement lawsuit.

 

[CFreymarc]

It's all good, it won't be long before Blackberry is out of business and gone too.

Like an old maid who's never asked on the dance floor anymore.

 

[Zorn]

Nobody can make cellphones with physical keyboards that look like blackberry keyboards, except blackberry, or anyone buying a license from blackberry. They have a very recognisable design, which you cannot just copy. You are free to make a keyboard that looks different.

I'm not sure I agree that they looked exactly the same though. I suppose there was some similarity, but then again a phone keyboard in those small dimensions is bound to look similar to the only company out there making such a thing. Maybe they could make bubble round keys with Comic Sans font, and that would be ridiculous but drastically different.

 

[violst]

All they had to do was change the look and the color of the case and then the lawsuit would go away. I was always baffled that after the first version of this thing was in violation of the physical look of a blackberry why in the next version they just didn't change the look and color? It was like they wanted the publicity of the lawsuit to help them sell this thing!