Honorable mentions go to the Lenovo Yoga 11, with its 360-degree hinge, and Microsoft's Surface with Windows RT along with its "click in" keyboard covers.

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The Storm posed a special challenge for RIM because the company's operating system had always been tailored to a keyboard and click-wheel or track-ball for navigation, rather than a touch screen.

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What's worse, the Storm2's implementation requires a surprising amount of effort to actuate, meaning that long messages were a chore to type out -- not only do they wear out your fingers, but it gets old hearing the screen's loud "thunk" each and every time you type a letter, which we find considerably more noticeable than the traditional click of a physical QWERTY keyboard.

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He snaps on the keyboard with the same hearty click made famous in Microsoft commercials.

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Most seriously, many Metro apps seem to allow you to click deeper into their various levels of content using the keyboard, but then require you to use the mouse just to get back up to a higher level.

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The device has similar features to the iPad, letting users click on applications with their fingers and type on a virtual keyboard on the display.

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The iconic red nub and unparalleled keyboard are in tow, as well as a large click pad.

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Specifically tailored for Tiki's functionality, iZotope's Adaptive Noise Reduction (ANR) analyzes the incoming audio stream to detect and suppress undesired background noise, while Key Click Reduction (KCR) is specially developed to reduce typing noises by "grabbing" rapid rise sounds such as keyboard clicks.

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