Another sign of Apple’s tablet/ UMPCMAC

Apple has filed many patent applications over the past couple of months describing and illustrating a touch sensitive device that is the size of a tablet PC or one of the new UMPCs. Today the files another of these applications decrypting a QWERTY keyboard, but unlike the split keypad on the UMPC this one shows all the keys off to one side (propbably resulting in much slower typing).

Check out all of Apple’s recent tablet/UMMAC filings over here.