Some of HTC's handsets (like the EVO 3D, myTouch 4G Slide and EVO 4G LTE) have keys offering better tactile feedback.
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The only thing you have to worry about are those looking down from even higher roofs, or others who also have keys to the space.
"We couldn't get them out because we didn't have the keys and couldn't find the guards who had them, " he said.
These machines have 22 keys and are capable of typing at the speed of speech, around 180 words per minute, or three words every second.
Piano keys each have three strings that, when struck by a felt-covered hammer, make a musical sound. (The exceptions are the bass keys, which have either two strings or one.) Pressing the soft pedal shifts the hammers so only two of the three strings are touched, giving the piano a much softer tone.
Residents have been given keys along with the emergency services and public utilities.
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"We figured we weren't going to win anything because The Black Keys have been sweeping up all day, rightfully so, " Marcus Mumford said.
Rather than being perfectly square or rectangular, the keys have one rounded, curved side, giving them the look of a tooth or roof shingle.
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Across the bottom, the Storm's keys have been replaced with four softkeys on the display proper for call, end, back, and a BlackBerry key.
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Instead, car owner and renter will have to swap keys either in person or find some other ways, such as using a lock box.
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The Tories have had the keys to County Hall since 2001, winning majorities ever since, but between 1981 and 2001 there was no overall control.
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They keys have the same flat, close-together design they always had, so don't be put off if you see these on the shelf at Best Buy.
It also helps that the keys have a soft finish, along with some crisp backlighting (there's a light underneath each key, similar to HP's Radiance setup).
The important thing to know (besides the fact that this is a chiclet layout) is that the keys have about 30 percent more surface area than they used to.
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As we've said many times before, it feels as if the keys have been molded especially for our fingertips and the deck itself doesn't have any flex or noticeable bend.
Just before Christmas, the Royal Mail replaced it with an Elizabeth II box which means it is unaffected while the keys have been lost for the older models, said Mr Bach.
Social networking, texting, email and digital messages have borrowed the keys to the English language and are joy-riding all over the landscape, smashing body panels and junking up the fancy interior.
"Floppies and memory keys have their place, but they don't have anything like the capacity or flexibility of a hard drive so are unable to meet the demand for more and more storage capacity in consumer devices, " said Mr Larsson.
"I like to have it be part of the game, have people drop their keys right away, " she said.
It's also worth pointing out that the keys themselves have beveled, or sculpted, keytops, another once-standard feature that's sadly becoming far less commonplace.
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The bright color design is attractive and the keys all have a firm, responsive action, though perhaps a little clustered for those with larger digits.
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Perhaps our biggest question is how much travel these keys will have -- after all, the last thing anyone needs is another shallow Ultrabook keyboard.
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But now the Home Secretary, Jack Straw, agrees with EU ministers that law agencies must have access to encryption keys that are used to scramble information.
Graeme Hardman from Nicholls and Clarke - the builders' merchants who have been producing the keys and locks since day one - estimates that more than a million of the distinctive keys are in use.
"They don't actually fit underneath the table, so for you to come in to the Cross Keys to have a meal you step out of those things, and sit in a chair, which then means those things are left wherever in the pub".
But household debts have fallen from 98% of GDP to 87% of GDP, as homeowners have handed back the keys of their houses to lenders and reneged on the debts (which is possible in much of the US, but almost impossible in the UK).
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