It seems that Steve Jobs, who had declared that the idea of an iPhone keyboard would not ever passed for the mind, did backtrack on its ideas, leaving open the door to a future iPhone with QWERTY keyboard.

The news is still a rumor, probably the result of a simple hearing by Apple, but the fact is that according to The Register, some mobile operators have been consulted about a possible iPhone keyboard, to see how accoglierebbero the idea.

What Apple should follow the philosophy long been adopted by HTC, with the Diamond Touch and Touch Pro or with the Touch and Tytn II? For posterity the arduous judgement…