It's not clear at this point whether it can also display an on-screen keyboard for note-taking and other text entry.
The tablet, available from retailers and www.nokiausa.com for $400, has an on-screen keyboard.
I detest on-screen keyboards for more than a word or two of text input, too.
Users could type on it using a handwriting-recognition program or an on-screen virtual keyboard.
To type, he can select letters from an on-screen keyboard using the trackball.
There, among other features, are a magnifier and an on-screen keyboard.
All the new Kindle models have an on-screen keyboard.
The poor behavior of the on-screen keyboard in landscape orientation, however, remains problematic.
Experienced users can create text at 20 words per minute, which is quicker than using an on-screen keyboard.
On the bottom screen, the user enters the word he or she wants to translate in the source language, using the on-screen keyboard.