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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I see people say they do not want/like a touch screen but they do not say why. Sure, looking at an original iPad, you'd see it's touch and show lots of fingerprints. But the screen on an IR touch with Pearl is different. So I'm asking why people dislike. If you've not tried, then you cannot base your opinion on LCD touch or Wacom eink touch. heck, even the touch layer Sony used to use doesn't count.
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I don't have experience with an eInk touch screen, so my dislike of the idea isn't based on that. I don't like the idea of fingerprints on the screen, as others have said, and I don't believe that there wouldn't be any to speak of, either. I don't think my precision would be good with a virtual keyboard unless I used a stylus, which I wouldn't want to have to worry about. It seems to me that the flow refresh of an eInk screen would make feedback on the virtual keyboard be too slow to be useful, again affecting typing precision.
I love having a physical keyboard - I use it mostly for the notes application, and when using the web browser. Precision aside, I can also type much faster with my thumbs on the physical keyboard than I could with an on-screen keyboard.
Finally, for me there is no real advantage to a touch screen. The main point would be to get rid of the physical keyboard, and reduce the size of the device. It is already the right size and shape in my mind, though - I like the feel of it in my hand. I can't imagine shrinking it more being a positive thing, personally.
All that being said, I am pretty sure I know which way the wind is blowing, and I imagine that the K3 will be the last one in the line to feature a physical keyboard. I hope mine lasts.