Nokia officially announces touch screen

[homobile]

Nokia's finally getting into the iPhone "killer" game.Personally I think Nokia's gonna kick Apple's @$$ in the phone game.(May not sell as many handsets in the US but sure to be a better phone)

Video: S60 Touch screen officially announced (http://www.intomobile.com/2007/10/16/video-s60-touch-screen-officially-announced.html)

[Davesworld]

Does it need the stylus the pretty lady was using or is that just a convenience to keep the grime factor down?

[homobile]

Doesn't need the stylus.

[johnmed3]

Nice. Damn I' have been waiting for s60 touch screen. (other than SE P990 etc) :) !!!

[greenblood]

Wirelessly posted (Dell X50v and/or SE K790a: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows CE; PPC; 240x320))

I personally don't like touchscreen on the phone
this is hard to type when moving (walking or in moving bus/train)

[Ellen]

I'm still skeptical about the touch screen phones. This type of screen would seem a little to fragile as compared to the regular phone screens.

[Davesworld]

I sure wouldn't want to dial a number with one. I think it is human to want a tactile feel when pushing a keypad. The main reason I hated the original Razr was because you didn't have a positive feel to whether you pushed the button down hard enough or not. A combination wouldn't be too bad though. Some functions are better with buttons and others are simple enough to be convenient on a touch screen. Truth is that a touchscreen to be controllable with a mombo size human digit, needs to be rather large, possibly larger than a convenient sized phone could ever be. Not postage stamp size screen!

[jgebis]

I bet touch screens will be hot for a few years, and then we'll move to some sort of combination -- buttons for the features that are useful to have a tactile response, and touch screen in order to expand what's available.

[homobile]

I don't like touch screen only,but a Nokia S60 with a touch screen and keyboard...best phone ever!