The Typo 2 keyboard add-on accessory for the iPhone 5 and 5s that launched earlier this year now has a bigger brother made for the iPhone 6. The accessory is now on sale on Typo's website for $99, although the company is showing that new orders won't ship until December 15.
The design of the new Typo 2 keyboard for the iPhone 6 model is supposed to be based on Apple's software keyboard for the phone. You may remember that the first version of the Typo was the subject of a lawsuit from BlackBerry, which claimed that the company used its trademark QWERTY keyboard design. In a new interview with Re/code, Typo's CEO Laurence Hallier would not comment on the ongoing legal case.
Re/code also reports that Typo is planning to launch a version of the Typo keyboard for the larger iPhone 6 Plus sometime in mid-2015. They are also developing a keyboard add-on for the iPad that will be released sometime in 2015 as well.
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Typo 2 case for iPhone 6 now shipping, iPad case coming next year
Yikes, the iPhone 6 and 6+ just got a whole lot bigger
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Home button? Touch ID?
I know! I would actually give it a chance if it still let me use Touch ID.
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Looks totally ridiculous! If you want a keyboard phone then may as well buy a Blackberry!
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I thought they weren't allowed to sell these things?
This breaks the whole philosophy of an iPhone. It is actually twisting my brain just thinking about the idea of this. But hey, to each their own.
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Not really. Touch keyboards were always a gimmick, everyone's trying to find ways of making touch keyboards better, but physical keyboards? They never needed a design change because you can touch type, giving you more accuracy than any touch keyboard
Is that an iPhone 6+ with a Typo 2 keyboard in your pocket, or...?
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Who the Hell wants a crackberry physical keyboard?, isn't that so 15 years ago?
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Well, still a number of faithful BlackBerry users are very happy with their physical keyboards. But I don't see this working all too well on an iPhone. Ergonomics are questionable and the OS is not built for it. I'll stick with my Passport
I have it on my iPhone 5s. Works well for me. Much faster typing and more precise than the on-screen Keyboard.
What a hunk of sh!t.
SHIT!!!!!!
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Gotta love all the apple fanboy responses. You people cannot fathom why someone would want something to work a little differently than Apple intended. Sorry, but you cannot put your finger on a touchscreen and know exactly where you are without looking. A physical keyboard gives feedback to your fingers, so you can feel exactly where you are on the keyboard and make fewer errors. Now of course the responses will be, "I can type perfect without errors on my iphone", etc. Well good for you. Some people like the feedback.