v8sho

I use WM2003 on my X5. Today I was browsing in BestBuy and spotted a Samsung Blackjack so I stopped to check it out. I couldn't figure out how to operate it without a touchscreen. Mostly I couldn't figure out how to back out of menus or programs without the little X in the upperrighthand corner of the screen. Fighting off the pesky shark salesmen didn't help either, nor did the screen that is so much smaller than the Axim. Was I just stupid and missing something simple?

edge777

It depends on the device, but most have a D-Pad, and a scroll wheel. The Blackberry Pearl (not WM I know), has a sweet little roller ball. Oh ya, plus the two hot keys that are on pretty much every phone.

Slavik

...plus back and end buttons get you through applications

the only way to turn applications off is to use tesk manager, home/end/back buttons will not do it

There will be things that you'll not be able to do like highlighting picture and saving it....or highlighting text and copying it etc....but a lot of these could be sold with 3rd party software/freeware and some tricks

FallN

With Smartphones, since there is no touchscreen, navigation is done via hardward buttons, D-Pad and/or a scroll wheel. With the advent of WM5 you are also aided with the addition of "softkeys". It's not that hard but if you are seriously used to the touchscreen of normal PPC/PPC Phones, yes, it can be very disorienting and frustrating.

As cool as some of these touchscreen-less Smartphones are, I personally refuse to buy one. And not just because of the lack of touchscreen but because of the inherent limitation of the Smartphone OS vs the full PPC/PPC Phone OS: can't create or edit spreadsheets, word docs or powerpoint presentations. And as another mmber posed, you can't hihlight, cut and paste, etc like you normally do on a PPC/PPC Phone without aid of a 3rd party program. Meh...