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#616
Originally Posted by danramos View Post
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.
In my experience - reading is my main use for a mobile device, and my route is Palm Vx (160x160) -> Palm TE (320x320) -> Loox 720 (640x480) -> NIT - d-pad is not comfortable for one hand reading, and scroll wheel is also less good than a button. All reading really needs is one button on the side of the device. Does not matter left, right, top, bottom, especially when fbreader gives you all possible rotation options.
 

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