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Does the EVO not have a trackball/trackpad of any kind?

Yeah the lack of an optical trackpad is the one thing that dampens my enthusiasm quite a bit about the EVO. I'll at least try it out to see if it's a dealbreaker. They claim it's not there because it won't be needed due to a larger screen to easier to click stuff with your finger. But IMO a bigger screen means a trackpad is needed more than a smaller screen. Without it one handed operation won't be possible and I want to be able to use one hand if needed. As for the magnifying glass thing, I saw it in operation on one of the CTIA Youtube videos.
 
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There's a gravity sensor on this phone, right? Which is sensitive enough to be used to play games like that marble maze game, correct? In that case, it should be possible to write an app that lets you control the cursor by slightly tilting the device in various directions. Of course, you'd need a way to have the cursor not move unless you wanted. Perhaps the cursor moves only when you hold your finger over the magnifying glass while tilting.

Just speculating--not sure whether this would be feasible or usable.
 
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There's an accelerometer in it that detects when the phone is tiled, if thats what you mean. But there is no cursor on the phone.
By "cursor" I mean the on-screen indicator that marks where text is inserted, not the control unit that changes the location of the cursor (trackball, trackpad, arrow keys, etc).

In other words, could someone write an app that moves the text insertion point left/right/up/down just by tilting the phone?
 
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By "cursor" I mean the on-screen indicator that marks where text is inserted, not the control unit that changes the location of the cursor (trackball, trackpad, arrow keys, etc).

In other words, could someone write an app that moves the text insertion point left/right/up/down just by tilting the phone?

That's pretty clever actually, but I'm not sure it would be possible to do without making it an actual keyboard replacement app, meaning you'd have to implement the entire keyboard.

So essentially, I don't think that'd work with Swype, unless Swype themselves added accelerometer cursing into their keyboard.
 
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