New user questions about keyboard options

[pcskibum]

Greetings, and first of all thanks to those people who have taken their time to research/build new firmware, and document how to make this cool little device work better than new. I particularly like the work being done with Android. That's going to be amazing in a few months.

I picked up a Sprint HTC Touch on Saturday and spent all day Sunday glued to the little screen. Two questions I have, and I'll post them separately to keep the thread subjects clear.

As a long time Treo user my biggest concern was the lack of a keyboard. I've tried the iPhone and it's great on keyboard usage, so I was willing to give the Touch a try. Have to say I'm impressed so far, but it seems like one thing would make it better. Is there a way to connect one of the physical buttons to a utility that would swap the screen from portrait to landscape mode?

The Touch seems to work best in portrait orientation, so I find myself reading an e-mail and then wanting to switch to landscape mode to get the biggest keyboard possible to write my response. After sending the message I want to toggle back to portrait orientation.

So far I can only change screen orientation by navigating out of the application I'm running. So two keyboard questions really:

1) How to toggle screen orientation with a button press.

2) How to get the "best" (i.e. biggest, fastest, most accurate, prettiest) keyboard.

Thanks.