Split/Un-dockable Keyboard on the iPad

This is also exclusive to the iPad. With the advent of tablets we've seen a new style of typing: thumb typing. People hold the tablet with their four opposing fingers and just type with their thumbs. It's clumsy, and even clumsier when the keyboard stretches across the screen.

So Apple split the keyboard in half and moved the two halves to the edges of the screen. This works in both landscape and portrait modes.

You split the keyboard by placing both thumbs in the middle of the screen on the keyboard and pulling them apart. The keyboard will then resize and float slightly, as well as become translucent.