Touch Me Not!!

As expected, everybody wants to be iPhone lately.

Recently motorola announced their ROKR E8 phone at CES 2008. It's a touch-driven phone. The coolest feature that I found is that it doesn't have a physical keyboard, but it dynamically shows always the relevant keys based on what feature/program is being used at the moment.

Nokia has recently submitted another patent application for multi-touch user interface. It's named Nokia S60 Touch.

Key highlights for S60 touch interface will include:

• It will be able to support devices with and without keyboard, stylus and finger inputs
• It will provide tactile feedback via haptics technologies
• The interface will be multilingual with support Asian languages as well
• Advanced sensor framework and UI acceleration toolkit will be provided for developers for easier adoption
• Multiple gestures will be supported. Possibility for users and developers to customize them provided
• It will be backwards compatible with older S60 applications
• Embedded Flash Lite 3 for desktop like video experience
• First products with touch support will become available in 2008
  

LG also filed a patent similar to Nokia S60 Touch concept. Let us not forget the recently launched LG Venus on Verizon, it too has dual screens.

Off course, Microsoft doesn't want to lag behind in this race. It is doing the same thing with its Windows Mobile 7 version.

Where is Android?

You can get full technical details from Unwired View.
Nokia patent is available here.