When news appeared of a iPhone holster that also gave Apple’s sleek design a bulky BlackBerry keyboard, the gadget press was beside itself with indignation. “iTwinge Is the Stupidest iPhone Accessory Of All Time, Ever,” roared Gizmodo Wednesday.
How opinions change in just two days and a bit of viral video. That YouTube clip from gadget’s maker “Makes Me Cringe a Little Less,” is Giz’s revised opinion on the iTwinge.
“We’ve been overwhelmed by the amount of interest (Positive and negative) in the iTwinge,” Michael Nykoluk, Partner in Mobile Mechatronics, told CoM by email. The company reports it will have “limited preproduction quantities available” the week of October 5th.
To answer some of those negative reviews, Mechatronics released a YouTube video Thursday showing the iTwinge in action and listing some of its benefits, including fewer typos due to the $30 gadget’s physical keyboard.
[Via Mechatronics and Gizmodo]
Ed Sutherland is a veteran technology journalist who first heard of Apple when they grew on trees, Yahoo was run out of a Stanford dorm and Google was an unknown upstart. Since then, Sutherland has covered the whole technology landscape, concentrating on tracking the trends and figuring out the finances of large (and small) technology companies.
