Well I have used all 3 kinds of phones in the past - QWERTY, touch and the normal keypad.
The normal keypad is the worst of course, but after getting a touch phone I've decided that I could never NOT have a touch screen phone now. It's basically a QWERTY board anyway just touch screen style. Very easy to use, I text so much quicker and I touch type, which is actually easy to do on those tiny things and usually the phones will have built in features that know the correct errors made and will try to help you fix them.
On my iphone, if I accidently type 'dind', it will assume I meant to type in 'find' and change my word to that once I've put the space.
It's fantastic.
Did your life flash before your eyes?
Cup of tea, cup of tea, almost got shagged, cup of tea.