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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
 Better still make it two adjacent displays, clamshell like, to make it a micro laptop with one screen a touch keyboard used at will. Turn it sideways and the keyboard becomes an other vertical page. With today's technology and Apple savvy the possibilities are enticing...
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I agree! The reality is mainstream users want a touch type keyboard (real keyboard) The umpc's and mid's form factor in order to gain real mainstream sales needs to provide a basic laptop in your pocket.
If Apple thinks a larger iphone is what mobile users want they are wrong. MS made the mistake by pushing all the companies to build devices 7" and not mobile to carry in a pocket. What is needed is NOT a device too small nor too large. A device that when folded fits into a large inside jacket pocket yet provides the largest screen and a built in touch type keyboard.
Remember the old Psion 5mx or Revo? at 6.9" long it had a keyboard that with a little practice provided about 80% of desktop speeds and stowed in a jacket. Those HPC's sold over 2.3 million/per year and did not run full windows. The UMPC's run full windows but are pen input and too large to fit in your jacket pocket and had no touch type keyboard; guess what IDC says only 350,000 sold in 2007 worldwide.