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Research in Motion has already employed touchscreen technology with its BlackBerry Storm line, but the Storm uses a touchscreen technology that employs both capacitive tech and something the company called SurePress (which is improved somewhat in the Storm 2) that many folks didn't find as smooth as the capacitive tech used by the iPhone and the Nexus One. The Storm smartphones also lack physical keyboards, which many people prefer to on-screen keyboards for quick e-mail and texting.
RIM has been working on a new line of phones codenamed Dakota. Dakota is based on yet another line called Magnum, which never saw the light of day. CrackBerry claims that this is actually an abandoned Magnum prototype.
It's still interesting, though, because Dakota is the next evolution of this idea, so we can see here roughly what RIM is planning. We're happy to see that it looks a lot more practical than the Storm; BlackBerry users are usually all about the practical, not so much about the style or flash.
