Comments on: Video: S60 Touch screen officially announced

By: R2

R2 — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 09:27:24 +0000

Hey, that’s Porvoo in most of the scenes!

By: jthousand

jthousand — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:26:43 +0000

@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.

By: Alexandr3

Alexandr3 — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 09:08:30 +0000

@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.

By: Abdullah

Abdullah — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 04:04:33 +0000

Apple and iPhone, here we come!

By: Barry

Barry — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 01:36:27 +0000

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.

By: jthousand

jthousand — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 01:34:36 +0000

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.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 23:05:21 +0000

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.

By: Alexandr3

Alexandr3 — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 20:56:07 +0000

stefan, do you know anything about “how will java apps work on this?”

Thanks for any enlightment

By: Topy

Topy — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:56:42 +0000

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!

By: William

William — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:43:38 +0000

Finally we got it. Suppose this going to be next S60 version to support it.

By: greenteeth

greenteeth — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 11:48:11 +0000

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???