I am aware of the problem, but due to lack of time, I have not
been able to explore this further.

Basically, I have not yet found a way to programmatically pop up
the N9's virtual keyboard and trap keyboard events reliably. The
problem is that I am not using Qt widgets for text input which
would automatically trigger the keyboard. I have tried using a
dummy text input widget located off the screen and trap changes
in this text field, but I still could not get the virtual keyboard to pop
up (at least not on the emulator) :-(

The other solution is to modify phoneME's version of the virtual
keyboard, and size it up to a more reasonable resolution.

Davy