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When someone revokes RIM's stupid hardware keyboard patent or it expires.


Come on, that's not fair. Absolutely nothing prevents someone from building a keyboard phone. OEM's are free to build any hardware keyboard they want, so long as it isn't a direct cut-and-paste copy of RIM's.

No one forced Typo to copy the exact RIM keyboard.

There's plenty of precedent here :

http://i-cdn.phonearena.com/images/reviews/117747-image/Moto...

http://images.dailytech.com/nimage/hp-palm-pre3.jpeg

http://www.digitaltrends.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/att-...




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