Submit a Story!
topics:

More than half of touchphone users will go back to buttons • Register Hardware
World+Dog wants a touchscreen phone, survey results from market watcher Canalys suggest, but vendors still have work to do to prevent users going back to buttons. According to Canalys' figures, 38 per cent of some 3000 mobile phone users questioned in the UK, France and Germany said their next ...
Comments
Blog Reactions

Deutsche Bank says IT warms to iPhone
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — ... But a lot of people who have virtual keyboard-only phones miss the physical keys. According to Canalys, 53% of people who own a touchscreen phone say they won't buy another one, though they may have bought the wrong one for them to start. A majority of iPhone and HTC users say they'll keep the virtual keys on their next phones, while less than a third of Sony Ericsson touchscreen phone owners say their next phone won't have buttons. [via Fortune, The Register] TUAWDeutsche Bank says IT warms to iPhone originally appeared on ...

El Reg shrinks seven days into webpage
The Register — ... called the Milestone in Europe, and The Reg reviews the Sony Ericsson S312 , T-Mobile Pulse , and Samsung Galaxy i7500 . Sony Ericsson renames 'Rachael' the Android Xperia . Nokia will shut down N-Gage , T-Mobile says there's money to be made in mobile service, Opera betas a Symbian browser , and Orange's iPhone won't save you money but the company will pay cash for old kit . Most touchscreen users want buttons , a fifth of iPhone users watch porn on their handhelds, and the ...

Related Content
Survey: Less than half of touchscreen users prefer touchscreen
tuaw.com 29 days ago — Here's a few interesting stats from a survey recently conducted in Europe . These aren't specifically about the iPhone, but given that smartphones relied on buttons almost exclusively before Apple's handheld came along (and nowadays, everyone's ...
Survey reveals extent of shift in mobile UI preferences (Canalys press release: r2009111)
canalys.com 11/3/2009 — - More than half want a touchscreen in their next phone Reading (UK) – Monday, 2 November 2009 For immediate release Canalys Q3 2009 EMEA PC research highlights In a recent survey conducted by Canalys with more than 3,000 mobile phone users across ...
Over 50% of European consumers want a touch UI for their next phone. More than half who tried a touch UI don’t want it anymore
unwiredview.com 11/3/2009 — Touchscreen phones are becoming more and more popular with each month that passes by, and the latest survey unveiled by Canalys shows that more than 50% of consumers want their next phone to have a touch-based UI – well, at least in Western Europe ...
Users reveal iPhone problemsTechworld.com Mobile & Wireless 11/3/2009
Difficulties synching with Intel PCs Some Windows 7 users are complaining on an Apple discussion forum that they can't synch their iPhones to their new PCs. > >
Amazon.com Selling TwitterPeek Mobile Twitter Device For $99Mobile and Wireless - RSS Feeds 11/3/2009
Peek Nov. 3 launched TwitterPeek, a mobile device designed to let users send tweets and direct messages from the leading microblog service without incurring the data costs associated with texting on smartphones. TwitterPeek is available exclusively ...
Apple's Tablet PC Rumors Refuse to Die, Despite Lack of NewsMobile and Wireless - RSS Feeds 11/3/2009
NEWS ANALYSIS -- Apple's tablet PC may take an award for most-commented-upon vaporware of 2009. Rumors of the device, which a handful of analysts feel will make its debut sometime in 2010, have been fueled over the past week by comments from New York ...
PCs Shed Pounds and CD Drives, Gain TouchscreensMobile Tech Today 11/3/2009
Personal computers are changing -- and not just because of the recent launch of Windows 7. Visit an electronics store and you might also find laptops are missing a familiar component. You could experiment with new ways of controlling some computers. ...
Apple iPhone hack code updatedTechworld.com Mobile & Wireless 11/3/2009
Unlocked smartphones to switch networks Ace iPhone hacker George Hotz, know as Geohot, is planning a release this week of new code that promises to let users run their iPhone on the GSM cellular network of their choice. > >