The company said it was pressing ahead with the sell-off as they were non-core assets which no longer fitted within its light oil-focused portfolio.

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It's also unclear why RIM bothered using fancy piezoelectric switches rather than simple mechanical ones, because they're not doing anything with the technology other than letting you click -- when you turn off the phone, the switches "harden" and prevent you from pressing the screen, but there's no option to keep that effect going when the device is on.

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