Re: At what point does one say "I need a real keyboard?"
There isn't a day that goes by where I don't miss my physical keyboard on my old Mogul, and I've had the Touch since the day it came out. That being said, I'm actually fairly impressed with the HTC Diamond keyboard on my Touch. It's quick, responsive, and it looks pretty nice.
There are a few things that will always piss me off, no matter what. One of those is the fact that no matter what I do, I will have to deal without having tactile feedback. Once you learn to cope with that, it's not so bad. Another thing is that it's very difficult to type web addresses and words that are not in the phone's dictionary with a keyboard that has predictive text. If I go to some website with a web address like welovepocketpcs.com (or whatever), I will get so angry at the fact that I have to type "we", space, backspace, "love", space, backspace, "pocket", space, backspace, "pcs.com" with the Touch keyboard. One more thing would be the fact that software keyboards take up so damn much of the screen, it's ridiculous. Not only that, but it also screws up in some programs where it squishes the program incorrectly, and you either can't see what you're typing, you can't see what someone else has typed, or the complete bottom half of the program is hidden behind the keyboard.
It sounds like I hate it, but I've actually grown quite used to it, due to the fact that I WANT to deal with it. The weight and thickness of the Touch combined with the nice UI and healthy upgrade to double the RAM the Mogul had makes it worth it to me. I wouldn't trade my Touch in for a Mogul...ever.
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