Video: S60 Touch screen officially announced

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.

• greenteeth

  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???

• William

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

• Topy

  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!

• Alexandr3

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

  Thanks for any enlightment

• Andrew

  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.

• jthousand

  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.

• Barry

  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.

• Abdullah

  Apple and iPhone, here we come!

• Alexandr3

  @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.

• jthousand

  @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.

• R2

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