To continue in our coverage of the BlackBerry Storm here on PhoneMag today, we wanted to spend a moment or two talking about the touchscreen itself. A lot of focus has been given to the various carriers it will appear on and its features, but we haven’t spent a whole lot of time talking about the touchscreen display.

The Storm features a ClickThrough touchscreen display. This sets the smartphone apart from other devices in that it combines capacitive touch and sensors to create a fully functional experience.

The top layer of the screen is used for gestures like scrolling, highlighting and more. However, if you physically press down on the screen you reach the second layer which results in a “click” that users of BlackBerry devices in the past could liken to the trackball. This system runs on Synaptics’ ClearPad, which is a multi-touch model custom made and seen prior on Onyx.

Other unique features include two-finger typing, copy and paste and more. Use of such a screen definitely sets the BlackBerry Storm apart from its competition, primarily the iPhone. So we’ll have to see how it fairs in hands on comparisons.

[via SlashGear]