No Physical Qwerty Keyboard == No buy-in from me.

I like the dual-touch-screen idea, as an idea. But I have yet to use a virtual keyboard that I really liked. Some are better than others (the N800's is better than the iPhone's, IMO), but they're still dramatically inferior to having physical keys.

Now, if the second screen did something really innovative, like a way to use keys with little oled displays on them (like that one desktop keyboard whose name escapes me), but in a way where the displays went all the way to the edges of the keys, so that you could visually make the keys blend together when you want them to act like a display ... then have them look like a keyboard when you need a keyboard ... that might have potential.

Or, those designs that allow a display to slightly morph in physical shape so that keys sort of "rise up" out of the display surface (so you have physical sensation of the key pressing, and a sense of the key centers and/or edges), then that'd be good too.

But without one of those two things, no f'n way.


Though, one way to have that twin display idea, with a physical keyboard, is to mate the E90 with a twist/convertable idea. Only instead of the display rotating to face in/out, have the keyboard half rotate.

• if the device is open, and the keyboard is facing "out", then disable the keyboard and enable both touch screens (full/double/large tablet mode).
• if the device is open, and the keyboard is facing "in", then disable that half's touch screen and enable the keyboard (micro-laptop mode).
• if the device is closed, and in that configuration, enable that half's touch screen, and disable the keyboard and the other touch screen (half/large tablet mode).