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I'm not, but I'm very excited about this. Setting the bar at $500 means the android equivalent will be within my price range.

Unlike others, I'm actually buying a netpad for the touchscreen keyboard. If you have chronic RSI, the soft touch needed more than makes up for the clunkiness of tactileless typing.



For RSI-class problems what also matters is positioning of your wrists (they shouldn't be bent). Which is why I'm using a FingerWorks TouchStream keyboard when my RSI gets bad — it has both touch typing and a bent design, which keeps my wrists straight.


Wasn't FingerWorks the company Apple bought to work on the touch interface for the iPhone (and presumably the iPad)?


Yes. Their public product before Apple bought them was a 12" Powerbook that had its keyboard replaced with an enourmous multitouch input pad.




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