RIM's optical trackpads: they weren't joking about the 'optical'...

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Courtesy Engadget  Fri, 12/18/2009 - 12:43

Thinking about how your phone's touchscreen operates, you might assume that the so-called optical pads that have been making appearances on recent BlackBerrys (among other devices ) operate in a similar fashion -- but you'd be wrong.

RIM's official BlackBerry blog is chiming in today to drop some knowledge on us dullards, and it turns out that "optical" isn't just a cute nickname -- the pads do actually operate in much the same way as...


 

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