End qwerty domination!

A perfect example of an innocent early design mistake becoming important later:-
The qwerty keyboard was originally introduced to slow down typists because they were too fast for the first typewriter mechanisms to keep up. Yet it's still with us, even for computers used largely by two-fingered typists. This is where standardization can lead us (except for the French who, always striving to be just a little different, chose to use an azerty* keyboard instead). Yet there was a chance to change it when mobile phones were used for texting. Nobody who uses their thumbs for typing would want to use anything other than an alphabetic system. Alas now we have full keyboards on our phones though we still need to use our thumbs and --aaaargh! ---they are all qwerty. The only remaining hope now is that we get an option to change the touch screen keyboard to alphabetic. That would be really easy to do I imagine. Is there one?

*I had to change my French azerty for a Spanish qwerty. It wasn't so much the qw/az confusion (bad enough) but the numbers at the top: The French use the shift key for typing numbers while the rest of the world can type a number with just one touch. So frustrating... The Spanish keyboard bridged the Franco/Anglo divide and gives me all the funny keys I need too like ñ and Ç. So Spanish is not only easier spelt and easier pronounced but also easier typed.

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