Trends come and go in fashion and in consumer electronics. Take touch screens: now the rage thanks to the iPhone, though they've been around for a decade in Windows Mobile and Palm OS handhelds and (more recently) phones. But there is a difference,

however subtle: the iPhone and its flush-screen competitors are finger friendly, while the old PDA paradigm carried over to smartphones is stylus-centric. And there's the rub-- all those folks who don't want to be bothered with ever-lose-able and inconvenient piece of plastic. Toshiba doesn't make many Windows Mobile phones (they were once a large player in the Pocket PC PDA market), but when they do, they go for cutting-edge features and trendy elements. I doubt the touch screen will become unfashionable any time soon, so Toshiba's bet on a flush screen Windows Mobile Professional phone with touch software was a good one.