For those of you who don’t know, Ion is a popular manufacturer of many iPhone accessories. The latest accessory they’re lining up for the iPhone is the “Ion iType” which is basically a keyboard designed to turn your iPhone into something like a mini computer if you will and is aimed at the mass text and e-mail sending client base I would imagine.

The iType allows you to have your iPhone cradled into it horizontally as you can see from the attached pics; the result is much more efficient typing and an accessory ideal for people who happen to e-mail or just text alot.

The iType comes with its own software which you will use to type out what you want and subsequently paste into whichever application you want and send on via text or e-mail message. The reason you have to go through the iType software is because the iPhone does not recognise keystrokes from the iType which is kind of a drawback for the accessory as a whole.

As stated earlier though, this piece of hardware will save you a substantial amount of time and effort if you use your iPhone for e-mails and text messages quite often. The iType should be available around the second quarter of 2010.