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S60 Touch UI
Symbian Smartphone Show, London, UK - Surfing on the success of touch screen based UIs of the Apple iPhone and HTC Touch, Nokia follows the trend and finally introduces the support of touch screen input on its S60 platform.
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.
Existing S60 3rd Edition applications will run on touch enabled
devices unmodified. Tools will be made available for developers to
further optimize the touch experience of their applications.
From motion and orientation to proximity and light, sensor technology
is expanding to new areas and shaping the future for mobiles. S60
brings sensor support to the platform as a generic solution enabling
support for a range of sensors in S60 devices. These technologies
open up a new kinetic world to the user and offer more
opportunities for application and game developers.
Also, the new UI Accelerator toolkit will allow device manufacturers
to develop rapidly and easily impressive graphical effects and new
types of interactions, further increasing the user appeal and
excitement.
S60 will be the first mobile software platform to deliver the
complete Web video experience as Flash Video will be integrated with
the Web Browser for S60. This allows people to view on the go
Flash-enabled Web sites and Flash Video, such as YouTube, as they
would do on their desktops.
S60 and 3, the mobile media company that launched the first 3G
network in the UK, will demonstrate at the Symbian Smartphone Show in
London X-Series devices based on S60, and the vision both share of
creating great Internet experiences on mobile devices.
"We are constantly on the lookout for new innovations to enhance
X-Series, our offering for Internet on the mobile", said Ken
Johnstone, Director of Products, Global 3G Handset & Application
Group, at 3. "The user experience is central to everything that we
do, and we believe that X-Series provides the best-in-class Internet
experience on the mobile."
"S60 on Symbian OS offers a great platform to innovate with Internet
services", said Matti Vänskä, Vice President, Mobile Software Sales
and Marketing, Nokia. "We see experiences converging, and people
demanding more and more of the functionalities that smartphones
offer, both of which highlight the significance of ease of use. The
focus of our strategy is to give people choice and simplicity - both
key to delivering the best user experiences to add value to people's
lives."
These technologies will be available for all S60 device manufacturers
during 2008.
Re: S60 Touch UI
oh is it really?
i want to know it clearly.
i want to test it.