Video: S60 Touch screen officially announced
By Stefan Constantinescu on Tuesday, October 16th, 2007 at 4:58 AM PST In Nokia
Sitting next to Rafe from All About Symbian, using his laptop while he is visiting the bathroom, we just saw S60 touch screen get officially announced and my N95 was there to record the PR reel. Here you go:
I think the highlight of the video is when you chuckle after the sparkle in the models eye. lol…… all I can say is…when???
Finally we got it. Suppose this going to be next S60 version to support it.
Great! Damn you are fas Stef
Couple of important notes
-haptic feedback support
-full support for existing S60 apps (weee!)
-support for kinetic and light sensors (with Symbian 9.5 I guess, as it already supports that)
-a new toolkit for creating animated, modern UI’s
-full Flash support!
stefan, do you know anything about “how will java apps work on this?”
Thanks for any enlightment
It doesn’t bother me having several buttons at the bottom whereas the iPhone only had one, I guess it’s necessary to keep it compatible with the existing Symbian apps, but I’d much rather have a phone that doesn’t need a stylus at all, iPhone’s proven it can be done.
I would love to have the ability to choose touch vs. non touch on one device. I’m not a huge fan of the touchscreen interface, and that microscopic keyboard has me nervous.
Good stuff so far, but i wonder if they will still gimp the hardware with very limited ram. To run this as smoothly as it should be, the device will need generous resources.
Fast job Stefan, but i guess Rafe’s laptop was very handy. Should have taken it from you via microsd swap.
Apple and iPhone, here we come!
@jthousand: non-TS phone will still exist.
@Andrew: well you can only use your fingus and forget about the sylus
If you’re worried about the small keyboard, well since ths device wil be open to anything, I would be surprised if a 3rd party solution wouldn’t appear to make bigger keyboards amongst many other solutions.
@Alexandr3: I’ve used touchscreen devices for a long time on Winmo and the programs that were intended to make the keyboard bigger used up all of the screen real estate. This made the whole user experience suffer.
Hey, that’s Porvoo in most of the scenes!