The fine folks at PreCentral have shown a Palm Pre 2, with WebOS 2.0 of course, and the infamous virtual keyboard that is going to be more than a recommendation if Palm plans on delving into the tablet market. Without a patch, displaying the keyboard is actually done by keying in a specific combination on the physical keyboard the irony is awesome.

Of course, the community has come to the aid and now with the regular half swipeto bring up the normal shortcuts, the virtual keyboard is shown. Still not ideal, but an ingenious solution nevertheless. Hopefully Palm implements this properly, and it is displayed automatically when a text field is available and the hardware keyboard is hidden. WebOS is getting polished all over on the software side, now consumers are just waiting for new and improved hardware with a different form factor.

Source: PreCentral.net