Battle of the Buttons

If you're sick of hearing about the iPhone, STOP. Go back and read my posts on the Mobile Web Server or something else if you haven't already =)

We've seen lots of people trying to compare the iPhone with the Nokia N95. Or even the N800 (I guess coz it's touch). It's refreshing to read an article comparing it to the Nokia E61i.

Now, the E61i is a brilliant device. Every person I know that owns it, loves it. However it's marketed more as an "enterprise" device, quite unlike the iPhone or N95 which are considered as "multimedia" devices.

But Michael Robertson proposes that the E61i actually compares very favorably with the iPhone. The touchscreen is sleek and all, but is it practical to be almost totally void of buttons?

Read his argument and see if you agree with him. As for me, one main reason I use my E62 much more than my N95 is the qwerty keyboard - i.e. more buttons. Touch screen keyboard? I bought the N800 and sold it one month later, and its touch screen keyboard is much bigger than iPhone's. I kept saying I'll blog from the N800 but never did. I'm blogging from the E62 right now (ok, I'll have to edit this post later to include links but that's about it).

Lastly, there are a few little "multimedia" tasks which the E61i can do that the iPhone can't: mms, video recording, and using your own music files as ringtones!

Having said (typed) all that, I still want to play with an iPhone and get my fingerprints all over its glossy casing.