The library provides commonly used touch-sensing decoding structures, such as keypad, rotary and slider, to allow upgrades from mechanical to touch-activated interfaces.

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And texting has become far easier, even with much-bemoaned touch screens, than using the old telephone keypad with multiple letters per button.

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Z10 is a touch screen phone and Q10 has the traditional BlackBerry keypad.

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