What was BlackBerry Storm's clickable touchscreen technology called?

What was BlackBerry Storm's clickable touchscreen technology called? It was SurePress. Developed by Research In Motion, SurePress made the Storm's capacitive display physically depress like a button when tapped, giving users tactile feedback instead of relying only on a visual touch response.

The BlackBerry Storm, released in 2008, was RIM's first touchscreen BlackBerry and its first major smartphone without a physical keyboard. The screen itself measured 3.25 inches and used a 360×480-pixel display. SurePress was intended to preserve the confidence of pressing real keys while allowing a full touchscreen interface.

The technology is often confused with SureType, BlackBerry's predictive-text keyboard system. SureType helped suggest words; SurePress was the clickable screen mechanism. The Storm also used haptic feedback, but SurePress specifically described the display's button-like press action.

Although innovative, SurePress received mixed reviews because typing could feel slow and awkward, and early software versions had screen and input problems. The BlackBerry Storm 2 later refined the concept, but the original Storm remains the model most associated with SurePress.