Landscape view/keyboard for Mail and SMS...

Does anybody know if there is anything in the works to give us larger handed iPhone 3G users the ability to turn the phone sideways for a landscape view and slightly larger keyboard when typing in SMS or Mail like we have in landscape view when typing in Safari?
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Thanks for the links. This was the main (read: only) reason for me not getting the iPhone.
I love just about everything about it and I have everything mac at home and a mobileme account so the iPhone would complement my needs very well, or so I thought till I used a friend's iPhone for a couple of days.
Typing emails and using SMS with the keyboard in portrait mode was painful. My fingers aren't that large but found myself spending more time correcting than actually typing. In safari I loved the landscape orientation for typing. I think this is a major oversight by apple.
I waited till this past week to see if apple releases an update to address this (what with all the feedback people are leaving on boards and forums about this problem), but nothing showed up so I bit the bullet and got myself a Blackberry Bold.
This was a deal breaker for me. Maybe when they address it I might try out an iPhone in the future.

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