Do you get on with your touch screen phone?

Ricochet J

Ricochet J

Ricochet J

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I personally can't get along with them. When I press the screen, I want to be able to feel the button being pressed. I know you do get some hybrid phones with a touch screen LCD screen and a slide out QWERTY keyboard - but it's not the same. I'd rather have the old fashioned point and click interaction.

I don't see myself going for a touch screen phone in the future. This may change depending on if I get to experience a phone that feels "just right".

How are you getting on with touch screen?
 
Texting is a PITA on a software keyboard IME. I have an HTC touch diamond, my next phone will DEFINITELY have a hardware keyboard.
 
I always turn on clicking noises. I find they help make the onscreen keyboard feel a little more... "real".
 
Wasn't too bothered when I had my Nokia 5800 but after recieving an E71 afterwards I realised how much I had missed a hardware keyboard.

Next phone will either be a full qwerty or a touch with a full qwerty methinks!
 
Love the touch screen. I have huge hands though, and the tiny buttons on phones now are just prohibitive. I found it very difficult to text on my Sony Erricson and constantly mashed the pad with my thumb.
The 5800 does have the vibrate when you press, so it works fine. Only downside is not being able to text when im driving, keep missing the onscreen keyboard letters.








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(Disclaimer: Never have, never will!)
 
I have a t-mobile G1 so the best of both worlds. Hate using the on screen keyboard but love the rest of th touchscreen UI.
 
I have the xperia with 800x480 3" resistive touchscreen and I get on really well with it - sometimes you have to whip out the stylus to accuratly use some of the smaller stuff at that res but most of the time you can get on with finger or nail to touch fine.

Can't say I've ever noticed the lack of tactile feedback - tho the screen does tend to flex slightly and the OS is responsive with most things you can click on changing color/image, etc. when you do press on them.

The touchscreen on the xperia is excellent very responsive and accurate - web browsing is a breeze.

Infact on older non-touch phones I have quite often gone to touch the buttons onscreen rather than the phyical button before I remembered it doesn't have a touchscreen.

Physical QWERTY keyboard is good too and the xperias is very useable despite its small size... tho a few people have problems with them degrading rather fast and keys stop working, etc. not had that happen to mine but I noticed the space bar is starting to get a little unresponsive at times on one side - hope it doesn't mean further failure.
 
I've got the N97 and, bugs aside, I'm pretty happy with the phone - touch screen is just about adequate when you're in portrait and the keyboard does the business the rest of the time.
 
I love my iPhone. I had one before and when I broke it, I decided that it was time to get some buttons in my life. I got my G1 and initially liked it very much indeed, but the main bugbear for me was one handed use was hard, walking with it, whatever. I really felt I needed to open it up and use the keyboard for ALL typing, which is a pain sometimes. The onscreen keyboard was pretty dire, I felt. I eventually found a way to wriggle out of my contract so I could get another iPhone and I'm really glad I was able to (I was lucky to get out, call centre error that I followed up).

The iPhone is the only phone I've used that's really nailed the onscreen thing. BUT I haven't used that many. I've used an Orange SPV touchscreen jobby for a while, that was awful.

The G1 is a good phone but I had to open it up for most things. Played with a couple of other WM phones and would want to always use those open as well.

I didn't like my Viewty that much but it's not a very good touchscreen.

I just think if it's all you've got a touchscreen needs to be exceptional. If it's got Qwerty as well you can get away with less of a good screen/osk.
 
Ive gone from a Tytn II > Touch HD > N97 and have to say nothing has come close to the Tytn's keyboard.

So much so that I've flogged the HD & N97 and gone back to my Tytn II..
 
I've had loads since they've turned popular, and in general have hated them compared to type phones.

Then i got the Hero. Its brilliant and all faith is restored!
 
iphone and android devices do this well, you need to estimate where you're pressing rather than pressing each button, a lot of people try to press each button and that isn't the way to do it.

The phone will correct your typing errors if you keep typing.
 
The only problem I have with my touch screen phone is I really hate seeing fingerprints and marks all over it. That's also why I could never have a touch screen monitor for my computer. It would drive me insane.
 
I've learnt to do mine without looking on my 5800 now, you just have to get used to knowing where abouts on the screen to press. I've even fiddled about with the handwriting thing and writing it with my finger which has about a 75% success rate. I just stick to the numeric keypad now mostly though, and am able to do it without looking as I said (but then I do send a hell of a lot of texts and use the t'internet a lot so I have had a lot of practice. :)
 
Seft said:
Do you have huge hands? I have pretty big hands and I find that the iPhone is too wide for one-handed use. :confused:
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Not at all, the keyboard and everything is fine, but yeah if I'm walking I can't comfortably reach the top left icon for example (I'm right handed) but I can text and such on it comfortably. Obviously with no feedback you still can't do it by touch so I still bump into stuff and so on, but I mean I physically found the OSK on the G1 too crap to use, even sat dead still. I basically needed the phone open to do anything useful with it (text, internet, blah blah), and that wound me up.

I did like it, great phone, I just like the iPhone better personally.
 
I have an E71 now and it's just fantastic. I wouldn't swap it for any other phone (OK, maybe an E72 when it's out).

Touch screens are for chumps.
 
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