Are these pictures proof that Nokia is working on touch screen devices?

Found them on digg:

Now before anyone goes on screaming about OMFG IT’S HUGE you have to realize that development boards, in no way shape or form, resembles the final shipping product.

Is Nokia (NYSE: NOK) finally getting it or have they been working on this for a while and the images have leaked just now?

All I know is touch is in, Nokia is obviously headed for that direction. Dropping hints like the Aeon concept pictures, and those wicked videos on youtube, the future is looking mighty bright!

UPDATE: I’m doing some research, the shipping label points to a company called Fairchild Ltd. so there goes your theory out the window JaXX.

It is 22:42 in London right now so I can’t call them, but hopefully they’ll email me back later tomorrow morning.

If the shipping label proves to be authentic then that means this order was processed in January of 2006. That would mean Nokia has been working on this for a while.

Here is an interesting snippet on Fairchild’s site:

A substantial proportion of the assignments we undertake start out as either engineering or application concepts which we develop through to reality working in close cooperation with the client.

Such projects have ranged in scope from the simple – Customer Information Systems for mainline stations – through Police Interview Recorders, Public Transport Information and Security Systems and Parliamentary Voting Terminals to Subsea Terrain Modelling Systems.

Our registration to ISO9001:2000 ensures each project’s design and development is fully planned, controlled and documented throughout the process and that the client’s design brief is professionally implemented within all legal and statutory constraints.

Remember, whilst it may be new to you it very probably isn’t to us!

UK company … Nokia’s Chief Designer Alastair Curtis is from the UK … coincidence? Probably, considering that today in 2007 you can ship anything, anywhere at anytime.