I replaced my ancient mobile with the latest LG Cookie last week. It's just a £100 pay as you go model, not really a smartphone, but it has a touch-screen and t

I replaced my ancient mobile with the latest LG Cookie last week. It's just a £100 pay as you go model, not really a smartphone, but it has a touch-screen and turning it on its side when writing a message reveals an on-screen QWERTY keypad. But it's almost unusable. I don't have fat fingers and I do about 90wpm on a PC keyboard, but these on-screen keypads are terrible for hitting the wrong letter. It's actually quicker to drop to T9 texting mode on the number buttons. Perhaps the iPhone's better, I've never seen one "in the flesh", but I can't imagine how they'd make a touchscreen QWERTY keypad work. I had a play with the G1 in the phone shop just out of interest (the disappointment on the shop assistant's face when I said I didn't really want a £35 contract but just wanted the pay as you go phone was quite shocking). It was most impressive and the keyboard was very quick to type on. Hopefully, since I'm under the impression that Android is freely available for manufacturers to use on their phones, we'll start to see some budget manufacturers (Huawei?) using Google's OS at some point in the next couple of years to give users a decent experience without spending loads of money on putting together a proprietary OS.