Well it's definately nice that they made it smaller, and adding a keyboard is cool. It just is too bad that the keyboard isn't using the whole width. In my mockup it's not three menu buttons, but I were thinking there could be some different kinds of shortcut buttons there. Maybe the space, tab, shift, ctrl, fn, del, backspace, alt buttons could also have been somewhere on the top part of the device next to the screen or under it, I figure that the way you are holding it, it would be a problem to move your thumb over to the side of the screen to do such things as hitting Enter or the space bar. Thus the whole area of the keyboard should just have been for the letters of the keyboard and the most important of the ,.:;-_ type of characters. In my mockup the keys are about twice as large as the way Nokia made them on the N810.

It might be OK for people who like to use devices such as Blackberries and such, I just think that if they cannot have a full sized keyboard in there, then at least it would be important to make the keys as large as possible.

As for the multidirectional button on the left side of the screen like with the N770 and N800, I think is useful for fast scrolling without having to use the touch-screen when the keyboard part of the device is closed.

I'm not complaining, I'm just posting my suggestions for the N900, that Nokia hopefully will show at the CES in a couple of months. I would actually prefer a device without a built-in keyboard. To me adding 30gr, removing the two SD card slots and removing the speakers was not worth adding a sliding keyboard, especially such a small keyboard. Or maybe it would be nicest to have somekind of compact foldable keyboard design be the solid screen protector like the sliding screen protector of the N770. I prefer the external full sized foldable keyboard for any serious typing.

And especially for N900, I'd expect Nokia to provide better video support, tv-out, DVR, transflective screen, built-in HSDPA and WiMax.