This is the kind of article which will either fascinate you or bore you to tears. I admit to being fascinated- “You might have noticed a different navigation tool on recent BlackBerry® smartphones like the BlackBerry® Curve™ 8520 smartphone and BlackBerry® Bold™ 9700 smartphone. Inside BlackBerry wanted to find out how the trackpad worked, so we went and sat down with David (Vice President of Handheld Products) and Derek (Electronics Designer) for a quick lesson.
In the most basic terms you might have heard the trackpad described as an optical mouse. “Think of your standard red-light mouse except your finger is the desk, and you’re moving the desk,” explains Derek. “So the tiny little imperfections of a desk that your mouse picks up on to navigate, it’s now replacing that with your thumb.”…
“Inside BlackBerry wanted to find out how the trackpad worked”
Inside Blackberry need to get out more……..