Why does mPad spring to mind …

if that is an 8" screen then bloody hell, i thought the keyboard on my netbook was small! - has he thought this through properly?

I assume that the keyboard is only intended for very occasional use. Presumably it's at least as big as the hardware keypads on smartphones, so if you're only using it for a quck text or email it should be OK…?

To go in the ways of Apple (iPhone and iPad), one needs a very solid OS (the iPad will run the iPhone-ish OS), and a brilliant apps store as Apple. Windows Mobile platforms have been known as slugish, and MS Apps store is a joke!

The joysticks are a good idea. Not sure on the rest. Will everything be built into the keyboard section? Otherwise how will the screen stay up when the stand is removed and used as a keyboard? Wouldnt it fall over? Why not use the whole of the back for the keyboard (would be slimmer) rather than a cut out middle section of it?