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Originally Posted by eschwartz
I will never understand why people demand physical page turn buttons on their ereaders, but I have never heard anyone complain about the lack of physical dialing buttons on their smartphone.
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I went to a Blackberry for awhile specifically because I liked using real buttons for dialing, but there were too many trade-offs -- mostly lack of apps I wanted -- so I went back to my Motorola Admiral (which does have a real, Blackberry style, QWERTY keyboard, but not for dialing).
As for touch-screen eReaders, I don't know why but -- if I've got real buttons -- I'll use them with touch screen devices (Nook ST and Sony T2). I think I worry about smudging the screen (psychological hang up, I guess). But it doesn't bother me on the Kindle Touch not to have buttons. I do like the Nook ST's thicker bezel (where the buttons are) -- it seems more comfortable to hold.