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Originally Posted by mikecentola
A lot of what you are saying is opinion not fact.
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Yes, it is just an opinion... of 100% of the consumers out there that aren't jocking on Steve Jobs' nutsac. Gobble gobble.
And I'm not speaking about the iPhone specifically here (you can stop defending shoddy products) I'm speaking of all touch screens in general. The technology just isn't there to replace a tactile keyboard, which is exactly why keyboard-less tablets have gone by the wayside, and convertibles have become mainstream.
Keeping with the discussion of cell phones, even the biggest most hyped up PDAs coming out have keyboards/pads attached:
The updated Nokia E90
The N-Series QWERTY
The Blackberry touchscreen slider
The Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 - (Personally, my favorite upcoming device. I would gladly stab any iPhone user to death with a dull, rusty spoon for this)
EVERY. SINGLE. GOOGLE. ANDROID. DEVICE.
The list goes on.
I'll reiterate what I've previously said, as it may not have clearly my point in my last post. Touchscreen interfaces, regardless of the platform or manufacturer, are great for portable media players, GPS devices, hand held video game (PSP2 please??), and basically toys in general. Touch screens are great as SUPPLEMENTAL input, for gesture control, navigation, and other quick, low-accuracy input. Unless some serious advancements are on their way, touch screens cannot, and will not, ever be able to replace keyboards for a way to input text to a device with the speed and accuracy that current tactile keyboards allow, and no better proof of that is Apple's own inclusion of the most widely used feature on the iPhone and iPod touch: Auto-Correct.
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Originally Posted by JiM P 2001
iPhone FTW. End of Story. lol
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Great input. Dunce.