Possible image of next-generation Nokia touchscreen handset revealed
Just days after Nokia dropped a touchscreen bomb and revealed it upcoming flagship N97 handset, we may already be getting a first look at Nokia’s next order of touchscreen business - maybe. The above image is reportedly a marketing slide from Nokia Capital Markets Day in Brooklyn yesterday. It allegedly depicts an upcoming touchscreen-only handset with a UI that looks absolutely nothing like S60 and gesture support complex enough to warrant a notation beside the mock ups. We’re skeptical at best, but we do know that the Finns have some big plans for touchscreen devices in 2009 so it certainly is plausible. If this is in fact a handset we can look forward to in 2009, Nokia apparently has finally recognized Apple as a major competitor and given the mobile industry up-and-comer the best form of flattery. If not, meh, it was fun while it lasted.
[Via S-F]
Is it just me, or does that resemble the the HTC wimax phone?
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Wow, this looks gorgeous… as much as I like S60, this certainly looks better and I am digging square form factor. Awesome!
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No keyboard? No thanks.
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I dont think the North Americans shouldnt hold their breath for this … even if this somehow does make it here in the next 18 months, it will be much too overpriced to justify the cost over competitors ..
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Its just concept art. Its not anything.
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Seriously, Zach? It’s that slow today? Come on, man.
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if i made a phone, this is what it would look like
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Maybe if Nokia’s actual handsets weren’t so fucking boring people would stop making fake mockups…
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I call bullshit.
Read the text in the upper left hand corner:
“Best in class touch solution enables large volumes and growth”
It doesn’t make a lick of sense!
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Dont like it.
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I don’t know about anyone else, but if this phone is real, that ear speaker sure looks uncomfortable.
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Keyboards, will eveutally die out, it will take a long time for that to do; but these are the upcoming of phones. Evenutally almost all PDA’s will be touchscreen and their response will be just like a keyboard
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This phone would be great if Nokia phones weren’t so expensive. I’m not saying the iphone is great but if it comes between $199 and $599 for a touch screen phone withe similar capabilities. I think I’m going for the cheaper one.
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Yeah Nokia will price itself out of the US market permanently if the only smartphones we can use cost us $600-$900 plus dollars a piece.
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I call bullshit as well.
Sorry Zach.
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1st: this is a PS fake…
2nd: nokia is not capable of releasing a multitouch interface! most people, incl. BGR, fail to mention that only the iphone has the mulitotuch interface!!! small detail, big difference in everyday life!!!
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I wish CDMA would die out. I hope these touchscreen phones will only be GSM, as Nokia mainly provides to GSM providers. CDMA sucks, its really old and they need to itergrate and change technology. Hopefully these touchscreen phones will have LTE and hopefully it will change the look on CDMA. Sry Verizon…you SUCK! GSM 4 life
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@ James Scherber
Actually that comment makes a lot of sense if this was presented to investors. It might not make sense to someone buying the phone, but for Nokia and stockholders that is exactly the reason for releasing a phone (volume and growth).
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why exactly does CDMA suck Luke? As much as Verizon messes with people and charges too much, their network really is the best in the country. That’s been proven.
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Why do I see all this price out bickering when Apple had their first iPhone priced at $600. how on earth is 600 for a Nokia different than 600 for an iPhone.
2 sec memory span I guess
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If Nokia wants to sell more phones they need to start selling more handsets in North America. With over 300 million people in the US and 35 million in Canada and add Mexico they would sell a few more handsets…
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Im a blackberry user/abuser and this phone looks very interesting. I cant wait to see how the final form would look like.
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The E-71 has kicked down the door
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@smokeonit
Apple has patents on it’s implementation of “multi-touch” but apples’ method isn’t the only method of doing such
look up “microsoft surface” for other ways of doing multi touch.
Just saying that Nokia could have developed their own system to do multi-touch.
The T-Mobile/Google G1 supports multi-touch in hardware but it’s not coded into the os (probably to steer clear of apple getting pissy about it)
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Touchscreen haters please keep right.
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