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Nokia likes touch screens, but wont use them |
QVGA
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Last week Nokia gave a vote of no confidence to the use of touchscreen technology in mobile phones. In an interview with Swedish newspaper, E24.SE, Nokia's General Manager of Mobile Devices, Antti Vasara, simply said that users prefer keyboards and joysticks over touchscreen displays and that Nokia is not enthusiastic about touch screens. Despite this, he did say that if Nokia sees the demand for touch screens, the company would use them in mobile devices.
A week later it seems that Nokia has seen the demand for touchscreen technology in mobile phones. Tero Ojanpera, Chief Technology Officer of Nokia, yesterday said, "Optical sensors and touch will be the next big things." His statement is a 180 degree turn from what Vasara said last week.
Ojanpera lauded touch screens, claiming the technology would allow cell phone makers to hide keypads. In addition, he said that movement sensors would also bring new and unheard of features to mobile phones. Ojanpera believes there will be a large amount of innovation between these two technologies.
HTC, LG and Apple all embraced touch screen technology. Dell and Hewlett-Packard pushed touch-sensitive displays for almost a decade on some devices.
Nokia, one of the few companies that refused to offer a Windows Mobile phone, might face its sudden interface problem alone. Over the last year, Microsoft unveiled optical and touch sensitive technology at a brisk pace with platforms like Surface, Deepfish and HTC's TouchFLO. Yet with Nokia's strong support for Symbian on its existing devices, the likelihood that Microsoft's sensing technologies will ever appear on a Nokia device is rapidly diminishing.
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deepsme
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Touchscreen is the future no doubt...imo the generic keypads albeit the qwerty ones will soon be limited to low budget phones.
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KingBooker5
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To be honest I dont really like touchscreen, I dont fancy carrying a little stick every were I go. |
fatreg
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On 2007-06-24 16:11:03, KingBooker5 wrote:
I dont fancy carrying a little stick every were I go.
you take 8 with you everywhere.....
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Residentevil
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THey are loosing me as a potential customer. I can't live without a touch screen.
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QVGA
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i'm all for a touch screen, but phones these days with touch screens and no keypads or with horrible keypads isnt the wisest solution IMO. Keypad is keypad and it cant be replaced by a touch screen entirely. |
Matteus
Joined: Oct 20, 2002
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It is a horrible mistake to dislike touchscreens. I have used 2 months Song A168 or CECT P900 and i must confess that is the best phone ever. Especially using radio, mp3, calculator, camera, imageviewer etc is much better touching. And the price with two batteries was 250 dollars. Great phone too. RECOMMEND and should give 91/2 point of 10.
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Posted: 2007-06-24 14:41
