gchatz, edchin, is this part of the user education project?

It's unclear if you'd like to bring up the virtual keyboard. Maybe not. But at least if you do Cmd+T from a physical iPad keyboard it should focus the omnibox so you can type right away.

Somewhat related to that project.

This is saying that omnibox should have focus right when new tab is done. The complication is that when the omnibox is focused, NTP disappears. So, this is a wider UI review discussion.

Sending to jasonkliu@ for consideration for that discussion.

While avoiding big product changes, perhaps the easier short term fix is to listen for the next keystroke after Cmd+T (if it happens) and put it in the omnibox, initiating the UI change to disappear the NTP.