N8 vs E7

Even on your precious, there are times when the control on the screen that you desire to activate is very small and there are other things nearby that might also be activated. Fingertips are relatively large. The edge of one's fingernail is quite small, thus one can be more precise. Yeah, controls should be larger, but one simply can't assume that every possible thing on a screen that might be tapped is going to be larger than one's fingertip. Web pages make a good example of this.

As oddsocks wrote, you have your preference and that's perfectly fine. Some of us don't share your preference and that's OK, too.
 
For me, I was toying with the idea of either one (E7 for its keyboard and larger screen, N8 for its camera) until I learned that the E7 is limited only to its built-in 16GB of storage. In other words, no ?SD slot. :mad:

On my N97 I have pretty much filled up the 32GB internal storage with music, movies and map data. On my C905a, I have also filled up the 16GB, and find myself wanting for more (no Sony M2 cards are available in higher capacities than that currently though). There is no way I could get another phone limited to that amount of memory.
 
Being an iPhone user who's had the opportunity to try many capactitive and resistive touchscreens over the course of a few years... capacitive is definitely better on average.

I'd say it can all be chalked up to real life situations. Capacitive is just faster, and of course it allows for gestures like flicking and pinching to zoom. You don't have to slog through a scroll bar or zoom buttons; it's possible to move very quickly. And of course, you don't have to break out a stylus unless the app really needs it.

To me, the N8, E7 and other S3 devices are simply Nokia joining the modern era. Some who need the handwriting recognition for foreign languages or are big fans of visual note taking will appreciate resistive, but even the better resistive screens have driven me crazy -- they're push screens, not touch, and that wrecks the feel as well as the range of input.
 
You're probably not buying one of those Windows Phone 7s. They got 1 GHz phones with only 8mb internal and no SD slot (WP7 requirement). That includes the HD7.
 
I think you mean 8gb. And that's the minimum requirement. I'm sure the more high end versions will have considerably more than that. Even so, I don't think windows, in any phone form, is for me.
 
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