I have owned an iPhone for almost a year now, and my issue with the touchscreen interface is not that it is hard to hit the keys accurately the on-screen keyboard. My issue is that on a device with a hardware keyboard your thumb(s) can be on the keys to hold and steady the device, without pressing actually pressing the keys. With the iPhone your fingers and thumbs have to be completely off the surface while you are typing, making it more difficult to hold and type. You either have to balance it gently on your finger tips using it with one hand (gripping it means your thumb can't reach the "near-thumb" side), balance it on the fingers of both hands for two-thumb use, or grip it in one hand, and finger-peck with the index finger of the other hand (a slow method). Overall I like my iPhone because I don't do a lot of heavy typing, but I have a lot of experience using Windows Mobile phones with hardware keyboards and it is definitely ergonomically more comfortable (for me).
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