I lost my both of my styluses ... stylii? ... pointer sticks last December. It's been hell trying to use my N800 with my fingers. I'm always grabbing a pen or pencil or something to try to do even basic stuff. Having played with the iPhone, I have to say, they did it right.

On the other hand, we're working with ports of a lot of apps that are designed for the pointer-based interface; "hildonization" only goes so far. Is it even possible to push the interface paradigm completely away from "pointer-based" without re-writing the entire GUI of every app? Can we get rid of the scroll bars entirely? I think so, it would just require a real improvement in the touch screen. When I want to drag the screen up, I want it to just work. I'm constantly cursing the touch screen for initiating things I didn't tell it to do. Maybe it's just me; maybe you can drag the map around in Maemo Mapper without it snapping back randomly, and maybe you can select text in the browser easily without the drag stopping mid-sentence and going, "clickety-clickety-click" and then selecting some random link.