We’ve seen some simple demonstrations of Nokia’s S60 Touch interface before, but Nokia’s going to really kick things up into high gear with their full-on S60 Touch demo at Mobile World Congress 2008 in Barcelona (MWC). According to the official Symbian Series 60 blog, Nokia will be showing off some added Touch UI features at the expo next month.
We can’t wait to see how development of the S60 Touch UI is going, especially with features like vibration (haptic) feedback. And, there’s a new development toolkit for S60, the UI Accelerator Toolkit, that will allow Nokia and third-party developers to make use of dazzling visual features. The Finnish company will also be demonstrating the S60 UI’s much-improved web-browsing experience, which makes use of Adobe’s Flash Lite technology.
We gotta assume that the enhancements in the S60 interface will make its way to the Touch UI, and with the benefit of Adobe’s Flash Lite plug-in, web-browsing in S60 Touch should surpass the iPhone’s web-browsing experience – we’re talking about Flash-animations, embedded videos, the whole shebang. If Nokia’s Touch UI is as good as the hype, Apple engineers will be working some late nights to make sure the second-gen iPhone shines.
Nokia hasn’t announced any new devices, per se, at MWC, but they will be showcasing the “latest S60 devices.” We’ll just have to wait and see what kind of fancy new features those crazy Finns are going to drop on us in a couple weeks.
[Via: blogs.S60]