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		masklinn on June 18, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 'First to Do It' vs. 'First to Do It Right' > And since most of those phons had physical keypads, the UI mechanism for doing it was fairly intuitive Are you joking? I never even realized my old E70 could copy/paste (then again, I never quite looked for it either, but it definitely wasn't obvious), and on more recent efforts for the Pre the copy/paste implementation is an utter disgrace. And yes, it does use the physical keyboard.

statictype on June 18, 2010 [–]

shrug I knew people who didn't know about how to select text or even change the selection point until I showed it to them...

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