Yes, it lays flat. Screen is fine.
Keyboard is not as intuitive to use as the E71. I might just turf this...ahhh...crazy expensive. I love the style though, and the camera is surprisingly good, despite lacking autofocus and a flash. Also, the keypad on the S743 is much more loose than the one on the S22HT; I keep mis-hitting keys on the S743.
EDIT: OH, and one more thing. It doesn't like foreign characters. Is there a way to do Unicode, CJK, whatever, on a WinMob Standard device easily? It also mysteriously lost my Epik High - Map the Soul folder....it was playing earlier this morning, then I further app-unlocked it, and now the folder can't even be seen in the phone Explorer. It's still there on the card, and it can still see the other non-Western-character folders.
Weird.