As for this article, even though I've spoken a lot of trash about Blackberry before, and I still believe that they are doomed and virtually finished as a consumer company, that keyboard is a blatant copy of the Blackberry keyboard. So go ahead and sue Ryan Seacrest's ass.
several points of difference, more keys, different key profiles, (blackberry looks to have one rounded corner where the Ryan kb appears in the image at least to cut further down to one side of the key, and has no apparent shape on the space bar, maybe not as cut and dried as BB might think
Anyone used a BlackBerry keyboard? Most PATHETIC input method known to human kind and some flake from a TV show that means about as much to me as a festering ball of dog snot goes and tries to bring it to the Mac because he's too stupid to be able to type on a non-physical keyboard?
I can type just as fast and just as accurately on the iPhone keyboard as I can on a standard desktop/laptop keyboard but I am so inaccurate on a BlackBerry keyboard let alone one attached to an iPhone.
Looking at the pics, I can clearly see the similarities. BB will make a couple of bucks from royalties off of this. And so will whoever buys up their patent portfolio when they go under.
1) Apple needs to provide a swype-style keyboard. The lack of swype is funny to Android users in the same way that Blackberry's keyboard is funny to iPhone users.
2) Nobody wants a hard keyboard. A year or two ago, there was still a niche market for it. Now there is not.
3) This will have no impact on Blackberry's business. Their costs of suing probably outweigh any revenue they stand to lose.
It would be helpful if someone had included which patent(s) Blackberry says Typo is violating. I found an article from 2011 talking about a Blackberry patent (8224393 B2) for the Q10 but when I looked at it, the keyboard used two characters per key. The Typo keyboard is an industry standard qwerty layout with one character per key. RIM/Blackberry has a lot of patents and a quick search of the USPTO gave too many to review but I'm sure Typo will be able to find keyboard layout standards that preclude Blackberry from winning this suit.
Anyone used a BlackBerry keyboard? Most PATHETIC input method known to human kind and some flake from a TV show that means about as much to me as a festering ball of dog snot goes and tries to bring it to the Mac because he's too stupid to be able to type on a non-physical keyboard?
I can type just as fast and just as accurately on the iPhone keyboard as I can on a standard desktop/laptop keyboard but I am so inaccurate on a BlackBerry keyboard let alone one attached to an iPhone.
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As for this article, even though I've spoken a lot of trash about Blackberry before, and I still believe that they are doomed and virtually finished as a consumer company, that keyboard is a blatant copy of the Blackberry keyboard. So go ahead and sue Ryan Seacrest's ass.
I can type just as fast and just as accurately on the iPhone keyboard as I can on a standard desktop/laptop keyboard but I am so inaccurate on a BlackBerry keyboard let alone one attached to an iPhone.
1) Apple needs to provide a swype-style keyboard. The lack of swype is funny to Android users in the same way that Blackberry's keyboard is funny to iPhone users.
2) Nobody wants a hard keyboard. A year or two ago, there was still a niche market for it. Now there is not.
3) This will have no impact on Blackberry's business. Their costs of suing probably outweigh any revenue they stand to lose.
BB is right to sue so 5 copies are not sold.
I can't imagine anyone wanting one now. Maybe in 2007...
It would be helpful if someone had included which patent(s) Blackberry says Typo is violating. I found an article from 2011 talking about a Blackberry patent (8224393 B2) for the Q10 but when I looked at it, the keyboard used two characters per key. The Typo keyboard is an industry standard qwerty layout with one character per key. RIM/Blackberry has a lot of patents and a quick search of the USPTO gave too many to review but I'm sure Typo will be able to find keyboard layout standards that preclude Blackberry from winning this suit.
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=8224393.PN.&OS=PN/8224393&RS=PN/8224393
Haha… blackberry is waisting there time and money again. And that keyboard was originally by palm. What a load
The BlackBerry keyboard originated c.1996 on their BB Pager; Palm was just introducing their Graffiti pocket thingie.
Cheers
What did Obama copy from Blackberry nee RiM?
Incompetence?
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That just continues the original thought for about half the country.
60%.
I prefer mechanical keyboards.
"I'd buy that for a dollar"
With such a well-chosen brandname (which suggest that you can't type correctly on it), I guess they won't be selling too many of these keyboards.
"In our defense we thought Blackberry née RiM would have been out-of-business by now."