Regarding landscape QWERTY and portrait T9... Only as a selectable option right? I can't stand T9-style input
also, when there is no ctrl+shift+r on the conversations app active, the portrait keyboard that appears is half the screen full only. But when the ctrl+shift+r is activated, the vkb goes all the way up until the status menu...
so far, both are tolerable but maybe i'd prefer the fuller one... good thing is, we can have a bigger text layout to see what we typed but the other half-screened one is good to see the previous chat messages.