Ok I guess this is where we totally disagree. I think that the N810 keyboard WAS made for keyboard shortcuts - it certainly wasn't made for typing long letters. Pressing one key or Ctrl+key is so quick and easy - or is it just because I'm a girl and my fingers are smaller?

And it's not so much that I don't want to smudge my screen (although that does bug me ) it's really more that I don't want to have to go back and forth. I could just use the stylus all the time I suppose and sometimes I do - I just like having the choice. Sometimes it's difficult to accurately tap the screen when I'm riding the bus and it's jostling me.

Before my N810 I used a Palm TX - one very active thread on 1src was for software to allow the user to hack the TX and use the 4 little buttons for multiple tasks. Even in the Palm arena users were wanting to do more with the buttons and less with the stylus. Now I've got ~50 + buttons that I can use do things.

Hildon is not fully finger friendly - it's kinda hit or miss on whether it works or not. I guess if I really wanted to use my fingers to control everything - I'd go get an iPhone but then of course I'd loose even more.

No overlapping windows and non-resizable windows is a feature of Matchbox. Moving and resizing is just a PITA with a stylus.

This I have to completely disagree with, seen from my personal point of view: The point of a touch screen isn't to be touched by fingers specifically. To me it's for using with a stylus, and using fingers is a last resort, nothing else (I occasionally do the single tap with a nail but I _hate_ touching screens of any kind with fingers, and I _hate_ it when people go fingering _my_ screens and displays).

So in short, what I take issue with is the implied claim that touch screens are for use with fingers: They are as much for use with a stylus, and what you end up using is simply a matter of personal preference.

Hahaha when you put it that way, it sounds kinda dirty...

I have a little squirty bottle and a nice soft screen-cleaning rag. I use it a lot, but hey.

I lost my styluses for a couple of months, and recently, a very nice guy on Craigslist mailed me a new one for free. So I've been using anything that comes to hand (fingers, pencils, pens, etc) for a long time. I keep forgetting that I have a real stylus again.