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Originally Posted by CarlBullock
You see this is the current argument (well more discussion  ) I'm having with my brother, he maintains that a touchscreen is what's holding back the Kindle and the reason he won't buy one as he see's them as counter intuitive  where as I'm more interested for the very same reason.  You see I already own a touchscreen Android smartphone with a 3.7" screen and I can't stand any smudge marks and am always cleaning the thing (however lovely it maybe  ) so god knows what I'll be like with a 6" screen  especially considering I will be constantly reading off of it. |
Yes it's the smudge/finger marks which totally bother me. On the iphone, you can get away with finger marks because it is a backlit device and turning the brightness up "hides" the marks and makes the screen more readable. It also isn't a device I use primarily for reading.
The Kindle (one the other hand) is primarily a reading device and the thought of finger marks all over it doesn't thrill me at all. I just pray that if Amazon go down the touch screen route that they will have the sense to make it an optional thing - ie you can navigate without having to use the touch screen at all.