Nokia S60 New Touch Interface
Apple iPhone did set the bar, phone OS makers have to response to the new “Touch” interface that seem to gain popularity. Today at the Symbian Smartphone Show Nokia showed off S60 running with a brand new interface. The touch interface will support both finger and stylus input, has full multi lingual support, has support for tactile feedback (haptics) and is backwardly compatible with the existing S60 platform. The main features involve efficient and intuitive Touch UI with tactile feedback; Advance sensor technologies and UI Accelerator toolkit and Adobe Flash Lite 3 enabling rich web video on S60.
The touch user interface in S60 Smartphone software offers licensees the opportunity to develop devices with a variety of input methods, whether it is a touch screen with a traditional keypad, touch screen with a qwerty keyboard or touch screen alone, supporting both finger or stylus optimized input, in addition to the range of access options that already exist today.
S60 touch user interface comes with support for tactile feedback, which means that there is a physical pulse and feedback when the user taps on the screen. This provides better awareness of the device’s response improving the user experience.
(Video courtesy AllAboutSymbian)
[Via EngadgetMobile Source Nokia PR]
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