I agree with almost everything, except that: I happen to own a Sony Ericsson P910 touchscreen smartphone and I definitely do not dislike it. I even took the hardware keyboard off because it was too much hassle.

That said, I don't especially love touchscreen phones either; it just works.

Now, just to finish this off in the right sentiment: Apple's cellphone is a mediocre locked-down smartphone with a novel way of controlling it. Mind, "novel" is not necessarily synonymous to "good".