I've heard it is going to have a keyboard since people want a keyboard. I am glad that Sprint did listen to their customers about keyboards with the Samsung Epic. I'm sure HTC wants a piece of the pie with a nice android phone with a keyboard. I always said, the Evo with the TP2 keyboard would have been an awesome phone, Samsung came in and took those dollars from HTC. The Swype is cute but only goes so far when you are trying to type out more than 10-15 words.
Looks kinda ugly compared to the original EVO.. at least seeing the Youtube video