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drewdoog
02/23/09

In reply to Kogan Agora Australian Android Phone Hands On Reveals It's Going Full Touchscreen
What is the f'n deal with touchscreen phones? dont these companies realize, most of us have fingers that we like to use? Give me buttons!
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Kaiser-Machead
02/23/09

@drewdoog: Despite the opposition to touchscreen phones, there are some advantages. They're less likely to have responsiveness failure, are more dynamic on the interface end, like updating virtual buttons, and so forth. They also allow for the most display real estate without having to significantly increase the form factor of the handset. People want smaller phones, but people want bigger screens, so this is a reasonable sacrifice, and in the case of the iPhone, a few HTC's and other devices, it works rather well.
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AreWeThereYeti
02/23/09

@Kaiser-Machead: Sure, there are lots of advantages to full touchscreens, and one big disadvantage... you can't fricking type on them. Depends on what is important to you.
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
02/23/09

@drewdoog: Well see it's like this. Apple told everyone they don't need buttons on their phones anymore and everyone else is just trying to catch up...
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Kaiser-Machead
02/23/09

@AreWeThereYeti: You can type on them, provided the virtual keypad is designed well enough. The iPhone and the latest bit showing up on Android are good examples of touchscreen typing done reasonably well. But, at the very least, the likes of HTC are sticking to their guns (mostly) on hard keys.
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ripfire
02/23/09

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It looks like it started out its early life as a winmo phone.
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
02/23/09

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Better throw that one back on the barbi. It's not quite done yet...
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A Snake a Snake... OH it's a Snake!
02/23/09

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"but if you wanna know how this abortion handles:"

Instead of an abortion, can we call it a death by stingray
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Kaiser-Machead
02/23/09

@Arggh! there goes a...a snake! ohhhhhhhh it's a snake!: Croiky, whada bugga
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