Again, this pair seems to exist for purely aesthetic purposes -- if you're the button-pushing type, this is arguably the most infuriating device money can buy -- but it may well help cure you of that BlackBerry thumb that had you on worker's comp for much of the early '00s.
At the time, the federal government was also pushing hard to get companies to add so-called "key escrow" type technologies to their encryption products so that law enforcement could obtain access to encrypted data on demand.
This is why nations such as France have been pushing this scheme, of course, and why left-wing academics have long dreamed of this type of arrangement.