I hate small keyboards. I took the flip of my SE P910 because pecking those chicklets was even worse than the half-arsed Jot character recognizer (I now use Decuma Alphabetic, which is a lot better, despite the fact that it relies on a dedicated input area). Heck, I can barely tolerate the keyboard on my Psion 5MX and that's universally acknowledged as the best keyboard on a handheld ever.

If the 770 had HWR that actually worked, people wouldn't be so fixated on dumb-pads. As a comparison: on the Newton (yes, I'm incorrigible) mailing list, keyboard-related threads are quite scarce.

You proposal for a universal portrait mode rockxxx though, provided it can be implemented without making the installed software base obsolete.