At what point does one say "I need a real keyboard?"

[subhumanderelict]

Originally Posted by bkhoste

Why do people get so worked up over their phones. It cracks me up, "My phone is better then your phone". People that like a real keyboard like the Mogul, those that like fingerprints all over their screen will like the Touch. No big deal.

So, in short, your phone is better than their phone.

[boggsie]

I went from a T-Mobile Dash, which had a fairly standard QWERTY thumb-board to the Mogul. The RAM constraints were simply too much for me to deal with.

So, I went from a Mogul to a Touch and as I made the transition, my biggest concern was loosing the hard-keyboard on the Mogul. I honestly only miss the hard-keyboard on those occasions where I have a desire to write out a long message, which is rare occasion.

In short, if I HAD a choice to go back to either a) Mogul or b) Dash, I would go back to the Dash. Thankfully I don't have to make that choice and I get to stick with my Touch.

The real issue to discuss is how your typical user needs are or will be impacted by device that you choose. If you really don't need everything a PPC has to offer, you might just be happy with a SmartPhone alternative.

Best regards,
-boggsie

[Cicatrize]

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.

[ryanbg]

Originally Posted by blue4shizzle

question.. if you dont really use the effin keyboard then what part of owning a mogul makes you happier? because that is the only difference besides wifi... the touch has way more ram and isnt a large brick thats in your pocket

Wifi and GPS were the deal sealer. I do use my hard keyboard a lot though. I like the form factor and screen better too, but we'd better not start a "which phone is better?!" thread

Originally Posted by bkhoste

Why do people get so worked up over their phones. It cracks me up, "My phone is better then your phone". People that like a real keyboard like the Mogul, those that like fingerprints all over their screen will like the Touch. No big deal.

Could not agree with you more. It's not like I care that I can type a paper for school without having to constantly wipe my screen clean of fingerprints and what not. KIDDING!

[bkhoste]

Originally Posted by subhumanderelict

So, in short, your phone is better than their phone.

My phone is better then everyone's phone because it is my phone.

[blue4shizzle]

Originally Posted by bkhoste

Why do people get so worked up over their phones. It cracks me up, "My phone is better then your phone". People that like a real keyboard like the Mogul, those that like fingerprints all over their screen will like the Touch. No big deal.

that is something a typical mogul user would say..

[bkhoste]

Originally Posted by blue4shizzle

that is something a typical mogul user would say..

I knew that would get Shizz's goat, LOL. I was just messing around with y'all. I know when my Mogul breaks down I will have a Touch and I will like it just as much as I like my Mogul now.

[SBR_L3GION]

if you ever use a touch for any amount of time and are not to cheap to get a screen protector worth actually paying for, you will never see the fingerprints personally i love ivisible shield it serves its purpose which is fully protecting the phone without making it bulky. whenever i had my mogul at first i used the hardware keyboard alot then i got introduced to touchpal and only used my hardware keyboard when i remebered i had reason to the bulkinees of my phone. fyi the bulkiness got on my nerves alot because i couldnt use the music player for training without worrying about the phone falling out of my pocket. you know all it really boils down to is how the user is going to use the device,and what there personel prefernces are.

[ajones7279]

Hmm....Gps is working fine on my touch. And wifi? Never used it when I did have the mogul so no dealbreaker for me

[pufftissue]

Thanks for the replies guys.

I am a bit of a grammar-junkie as when I reply to some people's emails it's for work purposes. Excessively poor spelling and grammatical errors are not good form for the job.

I also input alot of medical words which are not in the dictionary, i.e., losartan, rosiglitazone, or something weird like that. So to me it feels like I'm always typing "l" "o" "s" "a" backspace or whatever ,"r"....and I think that once I upgrade to one of those hacked ROMS all my "learned" words might be gone although I'm sure you can save the database file somewhere.

I've also got a foreign language dictionary that I would like to use in order to look up a few words. Inputting those is also not going to be very predictive I'm assuming.

I was waiting for a burrito tonight (5 min) and I tried to text "Went to work out. Will be home soon. Didn't have my phone." And I kept screwing up. My burrito made it out before I finished the message.