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All this anti-touch talk reminds me of the anti-mouse talk in the '80s. I'm old enough to remember the vocal majority saying the mouse was just a silly gimmick and how it highlighted a GUI interface was just a toy.

In 5 years most hanhelds will be multi-touch.]]>Sep 13th 2007 10:15AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2007/09/13/vodafone-talks-up-samsung-f700-plays-down-3g-less-iphone/http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/09/13/vodafone-talks-up-samsung-f700-plays-down-3g-less-iphone/
And the auto-replacing dictionary sucks if you need to type in multiple languages or use technical/legal terms. The iPhone has one advantage in supporting the display of japanese text, but you can't type back in Japanese and it hates romanji. It hates legal terms and abbreviations even more.

I have yet to see anyone who actually was decent at typing on a blackberry be faster on an iphone for any substantive e-mail.]]>Sep 13th 2007 10:31AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2007/09/13/vodafone-talks-up-samsung-f700-plays-down-3g-less-iphone/http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/09/13/vodafone-talks-up-samsung-f700-plays-down-3g-less-iphone/
Regardless of the learning curve or speeds, tactile keyboards will always be favored simply because the fact that it brings another sense (touch) into the typing process. Once you can feel the keys you can take your eyes off the keys and still be mostly confident of what is being typed.

--Travis Hudson, MWW Group on behalf of Samsung]]>Sep 13th 2007 4:27PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2007/09/13/vodafone-talks-up-samsung-f700-plays-down-3g-less-iphone/http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/09/13/vodafone-talks-up-samsung-f700-plays-down-3g-less-iphone/
And enough with this fanboyism about "multi-touch" - just how much of the iPhone's UI multi-touch in day-to-day use? Are you zooming in and out of photos all the time or something?]]>Sep 13th 2007 11:54AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2007/09/13/vodafone-talks-up-samsung-f700-plays-down-3g-less-iphone/http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/09/13/vodafone-talks-up-samsung-f700-plays-down-3g-less-iphone/Sep 13th 2007 8:06PM