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Originally Posted by drksilenc
well salty part of the reason for the larger areas where there isnt nething is the rails for the tilt and slide part of the keyboard. so it would have to be that big without the screen otherwise they would have to make it a significant bit fatter
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That may very well be part of it, but it is a very small part of it. If you look on the back of a TP2, the rails take up a couple of mm on each side, but there is a huge 3/4 of an inch (or more) space on the outside of the rail (which has unused space on the screen side of the device). In fact, the rail on the top of the device is actually under the screen, not the unused space above it. The tilting mechanism is all under the screen on both sides, not under the unused space.
Not sure if you have a TP2 to look at this or not, but I'm looking at my Sprint TP2 right now and this is how it is built.
I agree the keyboard will definitely make it thicker and heavier, but I don't think it will make it longer or wider. How much thicker and heavier the keyboard would make it remains to be seen. I think if they wanted to, they could make a pretty thin device with a keyboard. They have gotten thinner and thinner with each generation (sit a TP2 next to a PPC 6700, it's a whole lot thinner). I just don't think HTC always cared about making a thin device. They obviously do now, so we'll have to see what they come up with- if they even make a "superphone" with a keyboard.
I guess it all comes down to this: some people seem to be trying to get the smallest device possible. I am not one of those people. I am trying to get the most features possible, in a device that is small and light enough for me to carry in my pocket. If a device has more features but is a few millimeters bigger and a couple grams heavier, no big deal to me.