I just spoke with 8 of my developer friends who work on Harmattan, 2 cleaners(chinese) who clean the hangars where the N9 is asembled and one Nokia CEO(I can't say his name but it starts with an E, ends with a P and it has LOP in the middle).
They all said the consumer device has a hardware KEYBOARD.

My point beeing, no one posting here knows anything yet and the ones they do will keep it to themselves.