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has anyone suggested a "jog wheel" on the left side similar to what was found on the Sony Clie's as a multi-purpose nav tool? On my nx73v it is a dial on the left hand side of the device, kind of like the old station tuner/volume controls on the old pocket transistor radios. Depending on the context of what you are doing it acts as either a selection+menu navigation tool or when reading it is a great page turning tool simply by moving it up or down. If you want to select/activate a link/button you just navigate to that item and depress the wheel.
That wheel is an extremely slick and sneaky good feature and from trivial as I initially thought when I first began using my Clie. It really allows one handed use from pretty much anything where text input was not required. Moving to my N800 I was, and still have, a sense of loss when reading. And even though the Clie's have a touch screen, it is far, far easier to navigate and read using the wheel and I almost never use the touch screen while reading on that device.
I know the feature set is locked for now. But maybe someone might revisit that feature on a future device. Perhaps nobody else uses it because Sony has some obscure patent on the thing...still that does not mean the patent is valid. Just like the Apple multi-touch patent issue, there is almost always wiggle room within the language of the patent.
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