I don't agree

If you put the dpad down in the lower corner, then your thumb has to flex a lot to use it. Whereas if your thumb is on the dpad, in my last 2 pictures, then you can reach the keyboard from there without much flexing (a litte bit of downward stretching, but not flexing). More ergonomically sound.


I also thought about doing 2 dpads (one left, one right), and removing all of the other buttons (escape, menu, home). Then you'd have a control panel to select "dpad left, button cluster right" or "dpad right, button cluster left".

When one of the pads is acting as the button cluster, then left would be escape, clicking on the center would be menu, and right would be home. Up would be zoom in, and down would zoom out.

That would get you a nice ambidextrous solution.

I don't think I need to work up an image for that ... it should be easy to imagine it.