The cool thing about mp3 players and phones with physical buttons is you could control them in your pocket with one hand while riding a bcycle to school. I reme

The cool thing about mp3 players and phones with physical buttons is you could control them in your pocket with one hand while riding a bcycle to school. I remember texting someone on a T9 numpad, once you got the hang of it you could do it with the phone behind your back! Later I had the worst designed mp3 player created by man which despite having physical buttons, still required you to look at the screen to use it because button presses were (a) context specific (required sequences) and (b) not idempotent (the first press was ignored and brought the device out of sleep mode).