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

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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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