All I can say is that the N800's finger-sized keyboard works very well for me with my two thumbs - if it would be made transparent instead of opaque, I think this would work just nice. On the other hand, I find the stylus keyboard of OS2007 cumbersome, as it demands a solid surface to be used. But obviously, YMMV.

What? In which way? That sentence really doesn't make much sense without a couple of illustrating examples.

What has Apple's implementation of a long list for searching through music to do with the general finger/stylus discussion going on here? What hinders an UI designer to create eg finger-sized tabs for intelligently chosen letter groups to limit a long list?


Even though I can't prove it or back it up with studies, I dare to say that the vast majority of people who have ever gotten used to stylus-free UI's on small devices would never go back to a UI that requires a stylus for basic operations. Just a gut feeling, but one I'd bet quite a bit on.