Exclusive: Touch enabled S60 will be at the summit
By Stefan Constantinescu on Tuesday, April 24th, 2007 at 4:33 AM PST In S60 Summit 2007
Just came back from a podcast with Phil from the Voice of S60.
I got a nice little piece of information for you: touch screen support for S60 will be talked about at the summit!
No information yet as to details, time lines, devices, etc. All I know is that I’m going to be hearing about it tomorrow.
Wicked!
Interesting – looking forward to more details
Hmm… that title in my RSS reader got me excited, but of course then i read the post and i was deflated. I do hope there is a prototype device at least to accompany the talk.
You probably don’t remember, but Nokia has had a touchscreen phone before, the 7700:
http://www.mobiletracker.net/archives/2003/10/28/nokia_launches_.php
A new touch-screen S60 phone, or the old Lenovo phone? http://feetup.org/wiki/LenovoP930
Hey, have a ball in Madrid, be sure to check out some tapas bars, a museo del jamon, and some churros and hot chocolate. Looks like your hotel’s not far from the Real Madrid stadium too!
“Touchscreen S60 phone” not Series 90. I once owned a 7710 actually for a few months and it had potential, but its was greatly crippled by its very very sluggish performance. So now that Nokia have implemented the S60 OS into their communicator range, namely the E90, i hope they can also turn out some S60 based touchscreen handsets in the near future.
Just imagine an E61i-esque phone with touchscreen from Nokia. Awesomeness.
The Lenovo one doesn’t really count in this case since it was mainly an Asian only oddity. lol
Now is time for the serious business.
For information, the 7700 is not a S60 device
True it’s not an S60 touchscreen, but it was a touchscreen Nokia device, which is all I stated. Personally, I’d like to see something in the exact form factor as the P910a, only running S60 and with updated features (3G, 3+MP cam, slimmer, etc)
Woottttt!!! =) I’m really excited… Can’t guess what an S60 touch interface will be like and whether the touch phones will keep all the buttons or not…