Me too. In fact, I use my N810 this way 95% of the time. Tear crashes for me if I use the full on-screen keypad, so I'm forced to use the physical qwerty -- and I dislike it to a superlative degree: it feels like an annoying full-hand workout which is a rude shift from the easy-breezy on-screen qwerty.

The finger keyboard occludes the entire screen, which isn't that great, but it works really well for quick text entry. It's pretty easy to get used to this via resistive, but I suspect capacitive (with multi-touch) would be easier than needing to ensure key-strokes are atomic (har har?). Of course auto-correct could be added to a resistive onscreen keypad, as well as other general improvements (currently, shifting == bawlz) including taking up less real-estate (so I can use it for terminal, etc).

Had I known I would have such a preference for on-screen, I would have gone with an N800. I rarely (read: never) use the N810 GPS due to lock times and lack of travel (har). Besides, SD storage isn't really a concern, and the N800 was oodles cheaper.

Here's to hoping Nokia releases a keypad-less N900z/N910/N900-slim or some such, although the N900 is still looking mighty good, keypad or not.

YARR!
}:^)~