Take the iPhone for example. Great phone, large touchscreen, virtual keyboard, some people would have wanted a real keyboard. Now take the G1. Great phone, large touchscreen, full QWERTY keyboard. Some people want a virtual keyboard too.

Luckily a virtual keyboard is easier to set up and it looks like the G1 will get one. Android will release it sometime in the first three months of the year. By that time you can get used to the whole slide-out keyboard.