Ask HN: Thoughts on phone keyboards

I use both an iPad and an HTC Android phone, and I feel they have copied the "familiar" keyboard too precisely. Here are my thoughts on what they should change...

1. A copy of the cursor line should float directly next to the keyboard. I am always looking at keys, and I keep having to look away to see what was typed.

2. The Return key should not even be on the keyboard. This, and other potentially damaging keys, should be on the opposite side of the display. Keeping keys "together" is an artifact of mechanical devices that is detrimental now.

3. Hot keys to move the cursor by words and characters (to hell with that awkward bubble drag). And, a gesture to scroll text fields.

4. Make keys MUCH larger. Abandon the qwerty layout and have more category keys to quickly display certain types of keys.

5. A pair of horizontally-scrolling lists, similar to a Rolodex, to scroll through the alphabet and show large keys for ranges of letters you plan to use.

6. Preferences to turn off or change absolutely all "helpful" auto-correction, including a crucial change of default to KEEP what was TYPED, no auto-obliteration. I easily spend more time backspacing and fixing than this "correction" ever saves me.

So, next step...how to see this implemented? :)