&gt; Try using that non-touch early 00&#x27;s compact camera again<p>I don&#x27;t have a touch camera at all. The one that I do have isn&#x27;t a DSLR, but includes various dials. That&#x27;s my point: dedicated controls will always be better. A camera that primarily relies on a direction pad and menus is only slightly better than using a touchscreen (but it <i>is</i> better).<p>&gt; As for the &quot;blind and one-handed&quot; operation with the non-mp3 CDs, did that include changing through 200+ albums and 2000+ tracks?<p>For the CDs? Of course not. I&#x27;m not going to claim that a single CD could hold that many, whether or not they were in MP3 format. As for the MP3 player, I tend to set playback to a particular artist or setting the player to randomly play song from the whole library (by sight, of course), then throw it in my pocket. From that point, basic playback control doesn&#x27;t require me to take it out of my pocket, while I&#x27;d have to at least take out my phone and wake up the screen to start doing the same thing.<p>I&#x27;ve got to assume that the way we tend to use our devices differs enough that something that feels like a huge improvement to me is a piddling detail in your use-case. On the other hand, some of the ways that I liked using my devices have disappeared, or at least been de-emphasized in more recent models, and that&#x27;s what I&#x27;m frustrated with.