Arc Keyboard Coming to Windows Phone 8?

It looks like Microsoft may be holding a few tricks up their sleeves until closer to the launch date of Windows Phone 8 this fall. One of them could be that crazy looking keyboard you see up top.

WM PowerUser claims to have gotten this picture “courtesy of a leaked Microsoft Research presentation.”

One would have to imagine that this would almost be a more modern day version of T9 predictive text that was so common place not to long ago. While I really didn’t care for it than perhaps, just perhaps it has come along far enough now to be useful.

If Microsoft would be using this keyboard on their WP8 phones it makes me wonder if it would be choice between this and stock keyboard or not. Personally I would rather see them bring Swype over to Windows Phone first. How about you?