KEYBOARD SPANNING MULTIPLE SCREENS

1 . A method, comprising:

providing a device having first and second touch screens;

in a first operating mode, first presenting a virtual keyboard, wherein a first portion of the virtual keyboard is presented using a first portion of the first touch screen, and wherein a second portion of the virtual keyboard is presented using a first portion of the second touch screen.

2 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

in a second operating mode, second presenting a virtual keyboard, wherein all of the virtual keyboard is presented using one of the first touch screen and the second touch screen.

3 . The method of claim 2 , wherein the first operating mode is a dual portrait mode, and wherein the second operating mode is a dual landscape mode.

4 . The method of claim 1 , wherein in the first operating mode the method further comprises:

presenting using a second portion of the first touch screen first information.

5 . The method of claim 4 , further comprising:

presenting using a second portion of the second touch screen second information.

6 . The method of claim 5 , wherein in the second operating mode the method further comprises:

presenting using the second touch screen the first information and the second information.

7 . The method of claim 3 , wherein in the first operating mode the presentation of the virtual keyboard is modified as compared to the presentation of the virtual keyboard in the second operating mode, and wherein the modification includes aligning keys included in the virtual keyboard to accommodate a gap between a first group of the keys included in the virtual keyboard that are presented by the first touch screen and a second group of keys included in the virtual keyboard that are presented by the second touch screen.

8 . The method of claim 3 , wherein the virtual keyboard has at least one dimension that is the same in the first operating mode as in the second operating mode.

9 . The method of claim 2 , wherein the first operating mode is entered when the device is in a first orientation, and wherein the second operating mode is entered when the device is in a second orientation.

10 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the virtual keyboard is a virtual alphanumeric keyboard.

11 . A device, comprising:

a first screen, the first screen including a touch sensitive display area;

a second screen, the second screen including a touch sensitive display area;

memory;

a processor;

application programming stored in the memory and executed by the processor, wherein the application programming is operable to:

in a first operating mode, display a virtual keyboard using a portion of the touch sensitive display area of the first screen and using a portion of the touch sensitive display area of the second screen.

12 . The device of claim 11 , further comprising:

an accelerometer, wherein the accelerometer is operative to provide an indication of an orientation of the first and second touch screens to the application programming, and wherein the first operating mode is entered while first screen is in a portrait orientation and while the second screen is in a portrait orientation.

13 . The device of claim 12 , wherein the application programming is further operable to:

in a second operating mode, display the virtual keyboard using at least a portion of a first one of the touch sensitive display area of the first screen and the second screen, and without using any portion of a second one of the touch sensitive display area of the first screen and the second screen.

14 . The device of claim 13 , wherein the virtual keyboard is in a first configuration in the first operating mode, and wherein the virtual keyboard is in a second configuration in the second operating mode.

15 . The device of claim 14 , wherein the virtual keyboard presents a QWERTY keyboard to a user, and wherein in the first operating mode a line between the first screen and the second screen extends between the T and the Y key, the G and the H key, and the V and the B key.

16 . A computer readable medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions, the computer executable instructions causing a processor to execute a method for providing a virtual keyboard, the computer-executable instructions comprising:

instructions to display a first portion of a virtual keyboard using a first portion of a first touch screen and to display a second portion of the virtual keyboard using a second portion of a second touch screen.

17 . The computer readable medium of claim 16 , further comprising:

instructions to determine an orientation of the first and second touch screens, wherein the instructions to display a first portion of a virtual keyboard using a first portion of a first touch screen and to display a second portion of the virtual keyboard using a second portion of a second touch screen are operative when the first and second touch screens are determined to be in a portrait mode.

18 . The computer readable medium of claim 17 , further comprising:

instructions to display a portion of first information using a second portion of the first touch screen and to display a portion of the first information using a second portion of the second touch screen while the first and second touch screens are determined to be in the portrait mode.

19 . The computer readable medium of claim 18 , further comprising:

instructions to display all of the virtual keyboard using a first one of the first touch screen and the second touch screen in response to a determination that the first and second touch screens are in a first landscape orientation.

20 . The computer readable medium of claim 19 , wherein at least some keys of the virtual keyboard with the first and second touch screens determined to be in the portrait orientation are shifted to accommodate a border between the first and second touch screens as compared to the keys of the virtual keyboard with the first and second touch screens determined to be in the landscape orientation.