[From Errin]
Crackberry.com is reporting on a new Blackberry device that will be touchscreen with a angled keyboard. "While all the rumors of late are that RIM is working on a touchscreen device (again, these are still rumors..I have yet to see any concrete evidence other than mock ups), our friend Russel just found a new RIM patent app in the USPTO database that shows a CRAZY looking Angular keyboard on a mobile device.
The Patent, entitled Angular Keyboard for a Handheld Mobile Communications Device (go figure!) features a keyboard in which the
"right-hand keyfield has a longitudinal axis oriented at a left-to-right inclined angle""