The benefit of a touch screen is purely for web for me. Im more than happy with physical keys (in fact prefer them) for text input, gaming, music videos etc; but the scrolling of webpages (even those setup for WAP access) is pretty crap and owuld be so much better if you could drag it or click easily. How many times do you have to scroll round and round a small hyperlink (say the small '2' on SaintsWeb to go to page 2 of a thread" before you actually hit it?
Its not about aesthetics, its about the size. It could look like a dog, but if it fitted into a pocket without looking liek you are carrying a half size London Brick I would like it. Dont confuse having a pretty face with having a size that makes the product usable in all situations.
Firmware can only add a certain amount of speed, a fast proc is the only way you cna truely speed the device up.
This mightr sound like Im bashing the N95. Not at all, Im more that happy with it at the moment, but I know that as soon as my contract is up I will be changing the phone to one that has a smaller form factor and a better battery (after 13 months mine has started to need a charge every night).