The people of today are raving over the Ultra Mobile Pc. They provide you with many of the features that you would expect from a laptop such as internet connectivity and the ability to watch movies or connect with your peers from anywhere so long as there is Internet connectivity. These tiny computers are useful in the extreme. However, their small size gives rise to a number of problems.
One of the problems inherent to UMPCs is the issue of not having the traditional keyboard. The touch screen makes it easy to tap out your emails with your fingers or with the provided stylus. However, even this is not without its problems. The screens are only seven inches on a typical UMPC, and this means that there is very limited space in which to fit in a keyboard.
The space constraints may be hard to handle. The software designers could choose to design a keyboard utility that covers up the screen underneath, making it hard to see what you are actually doing, or can design a keyboard utility that does not hide the screen but which can be hard to use because the available keys will be small.
Since the brilliant designers at Microsoft know that no one really...