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#614
Originally Posted by lemmyslender View Post
The current tablets hit a sweet spot (at least for me, and it seems for a lot of others as well). They are easily portable and fit a decent amount of text on the screen. Reading on the Zire31 was tap..tap..tap..tap..tap, on the TX tap.....tap......tap.....tap, the N800 tap.....tap......tap......tap. In short more time spent reading, less time spent tapping. For portable reading, the current tables are borderline too small and borderline too big. In other words, just right.
Sounds like more reason to retain a useful D-pad or, even better, adding a scrolling wheel (say, like on the N800's top, on the very top-right side opposite of the - and + buttons).

A touchscreen is all nice and well, but a small device with convenient and ergonomically placed buttons and a scroll wheel would be MUCH more useful than a pure touchscreen device.
 

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