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Originally Posted by hofo_mofo
im sorry that makes no sense Mark...when you have a Palm in your pocket you have either keyguard on or you have to push the power button to power up
For editing its the matter of clicking where you want to go and delete. With a a BB you have to use a dial to move up and down left and right..
BBs are great...but that blurb about ts is pure false
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Have you tried over 20 different PDA's like I have? It varies from platform to platform.
For you maybe, but for a few dozen others of us, having the ability to turn off the touchscreen feature is important.
Sometimes a touchscreen DOES help thing and the touchscreen MAKES the web browser much better. I'm not disputing that a touchscreen is helpful, but there ARE cases where the touchscreen hurts more than it helps.
It also depends on the design of the unit. The TREO, for example, is more well designed than an iPaq PocketPC in terms of touchscreen intuitiveness.
A rudimentary example is is you're trying to do an addressbook lookups in a hurry and try to hit the scrollbar down arrow button on the iPaq PocketPC but that you accidentally hit the "Bring Up Onscreen Keyboard" button. Now you have to tap that button again to correct the error, before continuing your way.
A more involved example is you try to tap the bottom entry of an addressbook but accidentally tap the menu, and you select "Rename" or "Delete" by accident, just by doubletapping a few millimeters off by accident. Now you've got to correct your mistake, and correcting a touchscreen mistake requires concentrating at the screen.
Yet another example, is you accidentally tap the "Cancel" button instead of an icon/entry a few millimeters to the side of it, if you're a clumsy with a stylus. You're annoyingly "forced to slow down and use the device slowly" with a touchscreen sometimes -- unless you've got another option such as the TREO's direction pad (which is an improvement) -- which allows you to ignore the touchscreen.
With the BlackBerry, an accidental button press is usually corrected by pressing the BACK/Esc button on the side, which reverts you to where you were before the accidential button press. For example, you accidentally pop up a menu or launch an application, there's one easy undo-style button to correct your accidental button press without needing to decipher the screen too much --
A major part of this is the user interface, not whether or not a touchscreen exists. The point is that the BlackBerry user interface is far more accident-resistant for clumsy people (As a fast typist, I can be clumsy too even myself) than an iPaq PocketPC touchscreen (and to a lesser extent, the Palm touchscreen)
This is the perspective I am talking about. See?
REMINDER: I am not bashing touchscreens. Touchscreens CAN be good. A touchscreen makes a lot of sense. It makes web browsing MUCH better. But you have to
understand situations where touchscreens may sometimes hurt things. ;)
This has always been my favorite PDA. Built in thumbpads as shown below.
~Puppet '03
