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

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By: , IntoMobile
Wednesday, February 7th, 2007 at 4:08 PM

Found them on digg:

Touch1

Touch2

Touch3

Touch4

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 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.

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Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

  • JaXX

    Couldn’t this simply be the TV output of a Nokia connected to a small LCD ? (The kind you can mount in a car for example?)

  • Stefan Constantinescu

    Why didn’t I think of that, that is such a logical and accurate answer.

    Thanks JaXX!

  • Oposum

    hm im very skeptical – such a high resolution with os 9.1 ? hm i think, we saw a lot of “photoshop-ed” devices outa there. For me it looks like a terrestrial tv device where someone displays a screenshot made with his n80 in landscape mode…. waiting for vids.opo

  • Stefan Constantinescu

    You can’t tell the resolution just by looking at the screen. It is a large screen yes, but large resolution … no.

  • JaXX

    Dear Stefan

    Pleasure is all mine :-)

  • JaXX

    Honestly I wouldn’t place a bet here… but well… :-)