[hazzen]

I use an Android; it has copy-and-paste. I believe I have used it exactly once in over a year of using the phone - I had started composing an SMS to the wrong person and decided to copy/paste the text instead of simply typing it again.

For most users, I am guessing the most common use case is copying a browser link to an email/IM/SMS, and this can be supported without an actual copy/paste implementation. The hard part of full-blown copy/paste isn't implementing copy/paste storage, it is figuring out the UI for selecting text on a touch screen.

[izendejas]

you couldn't just change the addressee? well, that sucks. my "horrible" winmo 6.1 device lets' me do that, and it auto-completes based on my contact list.

but yes, copy+paste isn't all that necessary, but i can imagine mobile bloggers, among others, needing it from time to time.

btw, don't downvote me for using winmo. i'm not a fanboy, I just get tethering (bluetooth/usb), opera mini (the latest version is great), skyfire (streams flash/sivlerlight). It's a bit slow and the ui isn't great but I use a utily that helps me start apps using keyboard shortcuts and can multi-task (go figure) very easily.

[philwelch]

My iPhone got undo/cut/copy/paste in the OS 3.0 update. The main difference in my life is when I carry my phone in my hand without locking it, swaying my arm back and forth triggers the "shake to undo" gesture, and the phone complains "nothing to undo".