[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Touch screens and stylus screens can be useful for handling icons and other “mousy” tasks, however to me there’s nothing better than the good old keyboard for entering text.

True (until and unless voice recognition gets really good . . .)

But suppose the tablet had provisions for freeing the fingers of your left hand to type on the back of the tablet? In combination with the iPhone predictive software that facilitates one-handed typing, that might make for facile typing. Naturally that would require learning on the part of the user, and you would want that to be an additional option, not the only way to make the thing work . . .

[HiTech RedNeck]

Or for that matter, permitting right hand typing while the left hand holds the unit.