And texting has become far easier, even with much-bemoaned touch screens, than using the old telephone keypad with multiple letters per button.

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Other tweaks include the ability to return to the phone's home screen with the touch of a button--which is helpful now that users can fill their phones with multiple screens full of applications.

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Android was taking off in the wake of the Motorola Droid, and the software's support for both finger touch and multiple resolutions effectively opened the floodgates for companies wanting to one-up each other with bigger screens across more of their lineups.

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