I don't know anything about the 6800, but i love my touch. I rarely have to use the stylus, so i don't know, maybe the phone just didn't like you, iden364 lol. It didn't take me long to get used to the texting either.. You can use either a keyboard similiar to that on a blackberry (where each button represents 2 letters on a
qwerty style key layout) or you can text with a cell phone style key layout, or a regular keyboard layout. It also has a transcriber where you can print or cursive write almost anything and it works surprisingly well if you can write legibly lol.
It's also got a cool TouchCube as the call it (I think) with a picture-touch speed dial, quicklaunch thing and another launcher thing for Music/Videos/Pictures. The navigating is really cool.
I don't know, i just thought i'd share some of the things i like about my touch lol