Poll: do you care that iPhone is missing a physical keyboard?

On the plus side, John admits that the absence of the keyboard frees up valuable real estate for the device's 3.5- inch screen.

"A big screen makes the phone attractive for alternative uses like watching movies and that could open up new revenue streams for Apple and its partner, AT&T," he writes."

But then the lack of the screen could spark some usability issues. John feels that pecking on the onscreen representation of a keyboard with thumbs or fingers might be an unfamiliar experience. John even gets an expert to weigh in on that very aspect:

"The tactile feedback of a mechanical keyboard is a pretty important aspect of human interaction,” said Bill Moggeridge, a founder of Ideo, an industrial design company in Palo Alto, Calif. "If you take that away you tend to be very insecure."

Because I think that tapping on an onscreen keyboard really won't require that much adjustment, I am going to reserve any criticism of the iPhone's lack of a "physical" keyboard. But what about you?

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