Orange, the internet and mobile phone brand of France Telecom, is planning on releasing a touch screen phone in the form factor of a watch, the GD910. While I'm sure this seems pretty cool to a lot of people, personally I think its a miss application of touch screen.You can see the device being used on this Endgadget blog posting - apparently the transition from one screen to the next is so important that the demo guy hid it with his hand.
Anyway, the fingers completely occlude the screen to the point where it would be pretty hard (I'm guessing) to see what soft keys you are pushing. A much better desgin for very small touch screens is the NanoTouch design by Patrick Baudisch which avoids occlusion by allowing you to touch the backside of the multitouch device.
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