There have been some feature request for shortcut keys using the left softkey button.
Microsoft developer guidelines say that the left softkey should not activate a menu, so that leaves me with only one action available for that key. Right now, that action is "Statistics", but some players want a different action.
The option I'm considering now (suggested by [url url="http://forums.smoresoft.com/index.php?action=profile;u=15"][/url]) is to allow the player to customize the game by choosing one of a list of actions to assign to the left softkey.
I may be able to extend this customization to other keys as well (e.g., the "*" and "#" keys).