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Originally Posted by jhoff80 View Post
You know, I was thinking. What about a device that incorporates a sliding and folding keyboard. I guess I'm picturing a thin keyboard like the stowaways with two hinges that fold in towards center, and then slides in underneath the screen. The d-pad would have to go back on the front, as well as some other buttons, but it would be great to have a full keyboard for when writing long emails and then use the onscreen keyboard for all the short material.

Just throwing the idea out there.
A folding full size keyboard in an IT sized device has been done.

There's a korean wibro product that does it. I'm not interested ... I'd rather have a bluetooth keyboard for full speed typing, and a thumb keyboard built into the device for on-the-go typing.

Let me see if I can dig up a reference to the korean one...

http://images.google.com/images?hl=e...h+Images&gbv=2

The keyboard folds in half, and then folds behind the screen.