(This is not a response to any past post that I know of, it is a thought I had today regarding the next NiT and it's associated soft/firmware.)

I saw this...



... Couldn't this concept be better realized with a combination of hardware and firmware in the next tablet?

That is:

Leave the form factor the same as the N810 however, when the tablet is held upright as in fig. 4, the active application auto-rotates and reduces to take up the top half of the screen. An on screen keyboard appears on the bottom half (if selected as a user preference ).

Rotate the beast back to landscape mode, as in fig. 6, and the app re-sizes to take up the full screen. If the screen is tapped in a text field and the keyboard is closed, an on screen key board pops up a la the N800.
When the keyboard is open, it behaves as the N810 does now.

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Some variant of auto-rotation would have to be included in RX-51 for me to take notice. It would also have to run at a fast enough clock, for it to be effective.

Lag time sucks. Just ask an owner of a new Blackberry.

The ability to easily manage multiple streams in a household WLAN and near real time HD video streams via the WWweb, will be what is expected by the public from the next "must have" device.