What is on Your Mind?

I am posting via the THunderbolt now. Not super easy.

Every smartphone of a new generation feels like the most complex machine ever built. After a week or 2 things start to make sense and idiosyncrasies are taken for granted.

I wouldn't agree with that. The iPhone (as Perderabo cited as an option) is anything but complex. In fact it's a phone I wish I had before wasting my time with other "Smart Phones", of which I've had a few.

My problem with posting via the Tbolt was the fact that a rather small screen was divided between a virtual keyboard and a window into a fragment of the web page. I will probably get better to typing on that "keyboard", but it's never going to be the same as a real keyboard.

At the top of this page I see a "You are somewhere around Fairfax" in the welcome box. At home it's "somewhere around Ashburn". On the Tbolt I got "You are somewhere around ." I guess I keep the same IP as I move around.

FWIW, the Samsung Galaxy S has a keyboarding system called "Swype" where you type by gliding your finger across the keyboard, not pressing down. I don't think HTC phones have this by default, but I'm not sure.

Recently there was a "texting competition" in the UK as I recall, and a woman with a Galaxy S who was using Swype won the contest and was proclaimed "the fastest texter alive" or something like that.

I think there is something similar for all Android phones as app if it is not available by default.

Note: Let's don't turn this thread into an Android v. iPhone discussion, thanks.

I wouldn't dream of it! I have absolutely no knowledge of Android and, thus, can say nothing against it.

But I was merely pointing out that the iPhone is easy and intuitive to use, and is not the "most complex machine ever built". I've posted here with it on a number of occasions, with no fan-fare. I can also sync my contacts, email and calendar from my company's Exchange server with it, which, as practicality goes, is quite useful.

Agreed and the same holds for my Galaxy S Android phone... it is certainly not the "most complex machine ever built"... but it is a bit tricky to type on small touch screen keyboard versus full keyboards, but I think this is true of just about all phones of the same screen size with a touch screen keyboard, isn't it?