Would you be willing to get used to those?
That's the nokia 3650. It flopped cos it was crap for texting and was swiftly replaced with the 3660 which is still available on amazon some 5 years later.
Both phones came out around the time when Nokia almost got knocked off the top spot marketshare wise by Samsung who burst onto the scene with precisely the kind of clamshell designs (that appealed to women with small handbags who care more about size than UIs) that Nokia had been resisting by sticking to "fun" designs aimed at kids like the 3650. They smartened up and started making more clamshells and slide designs so that their phones were more appealing to women who they'd originally won over with the same simple interfaces we identify with Apple but lost thru idiotic designs (like the 3650) where form and function weren't working in the harmony we associate with apple products. Last I heard, despite new competition from Sony Ericsson, Nokia's still topdog. There is no way Apple is gonna claim that throne by repeating any of their principal rival's mistakes just so they can keep your beloved f$*%ing clickwheel.
Whether or not you write text msgs, nothing is gonna change the fact that most ppl do. And, if you don't write text msgs, than you're going to have to take our word for it that apple will need an interface that is at least as good as a conventional keypad for text entry if they're going to sell any of these rumoured iphone nanos.
