Nokia says touch interface and handset leaked in presentation don't point to new product

Sure, we try to front as world-weary cynics, but when we pinged our folks at Nokia for a statement on that suspiciously-awesome slide about a previously unseen touchscreen interface and device concept, we were totally hoping for a "oh, our bad, that's a real phone and it's awesome and it's being released in the States tomorrow." Naturally, that was not the case. Here's what Nokia had to say on the matter:

"The story you sent over was from a non-public presentation that discussed some UI enhancements - NOT a new product. The form factor shown was a generic form factor and not meant to showcase a new device / product."

So, yeah. They're not really going to fess up to a lot here, but if we were to read between the lines we'd say these "UI enhancements" are much more likely to get real and official someday than whatever vaguely-hinted-at device was shown off beneath them. Maybe. Reading in further, we'd say it's a little odd that Nokia's demonstrating to investors its "best in class touch" capabilities by using a mockup interface on top of a mockup device, but perhaps that's why we were never so good with "the monies."

[Suomaa Posted Dec 13th 2008 4:21PM]

By the way, if you guys think that S60 doesn't have fancy transitions you are wrong. Every S60 phone with FP2 or better (inc. S60 5th edition phones like 5800) have them. 5800 just doesn't have them enabled by default. You can enable it from themes, I encourage people to check out some videos about that if you didn't know that before. Symbain is very powerful OS and much more user friendlier than Windows Mobile and much more capable than Android and OSX (in iPhone).

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 14th 2008 2:26AM]

Just a future of mobile phone. What will be next.. Just touch and touch...

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 16th 2008 1:54AM]

There's KoL:s background:
http://-kol.deviantart.com/art/Stream-of-Light-91150693