Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 11th Feb 2008 22:23 UTC
Gizmodo has a video of Nokia's prototype touchscreen-based Symbian S60 interface. The first devices might be ready as soon as end of 2008. In the meantime, Nokia announced their highest-end S60 smartphone, the N96. It's pretty similar to the N95 that we reviewed last year, but with the addition of a DVB-H receiver for digital TV signals in Europe and Asia, 16 GB of flash storage, and the N-Gage gaming platform built-in.
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Seriously that UI sucks right now. But don't flame me by saying its a long way from production, if it is then on the one hand its good to know nokia won't release something that unappealing, on the other why oh why are they so far behind on touch ui, given they've had internet tablets for a while now.
From the video it currently resembles the sort of UI pleasure that I got from my last windows smartphone (Orange SPV M600), and let me tell you that was painful. Buttons that were too small and that occasionally you touched the wrong things, clearly meant for stylus not fingers.
The lady interviewed mentions that they tried to keep the interface familiar because people are used to the s60 interface. Yes, but that had keys. I don't want to go anywhere near scrollbars with my finger. Let alone menu lists.
I think sometimes a complete change of input requires a change of UI. Make things resemble the previous interface but don't copy it!