Touchscreen without trackball pointer?

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The vibrant looks really good but I'm kind of worried about the lack of any kind of touchpad or trackball.
Does this phone really lack any ability to use mouseover or hover events? What about clicking small links on pages you can't zoom in/out, like google reader?
I'm coming from a G1 and I find myself using the trackball pretty regularly. Am I going to hate losing the fine pointer control, or do they give you some other way of achieving the same effect?

I've rarely everneeded the trackball on any android phone and so far it hasn't been an issue for me. This phone has the most responsive touch screen I've ever used

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I will say there have been a few times I missed my G1s trackball, but only a few times and I managed without... Just pinch in a bit...

On the G1 the single biggest use of the trackball for me was to move the text cursor around while editing text, and it worked incredibly well. On the Vibrant I constantly find myself tapping around within the text field until I get the cursor after the letter I want to delete so I can backspace it. Some sort of magnifier for accurate cursor control like on the iPhone would be a very welcome addition to Android, since trackballs don't seem to be a mandated feature for devices running the OS.

Swype has adpad... Slide fingers from the S with the I to the symbol key...a dpad will appear....saved me a few times...buddy at ppcgeeks showed me...

Has anyone had good experiences with a capacitive stylus? I got an HTC one for my fiance and it was an absolute piece of crap, so I am hesitant to buy any other capacitive stylus.

Originally Posted by uwradu

On the G1 the single biggest use of the trackball for me was to move the text cursor around while editing text, and it worked incredibly well. On the Vibrant I constantly find myself tapping around within the text field until I get the cursor after the letter I want to delete so I can backspace it. Some sort of magnifier for accurate cursor control like on the iPhone would be a very welcome addition to Android, since trackballs don't seem to be a mandated feature for devices running the OS.

You can drag from the S-like swype icon to the SYM icon to bring up on screen movements.

This really is a hidden, but wonderful feature.

See bottom left:


To get this:

Originally Posted by temperbad

Swype has adpad... Slide fingers from the S with the I to the symbol key...a dpad will appear....saved me a few times...buddy at ppcgeeks showed me...

THANK YOU!

Super helpful. I have also been missing the trackball of my G1 for text editing. This little D-pad is perfecto.

-bZj

does dpad work on web pages ?

Yes, but you have to get the softkeyboard to come up of course.

-bZj