S60 touch technology announced, watch out Apple
The S60 touch interface supports both finger touching and stylus navigation and also provides tactile feedback with the touch interface. This means there will be a physical pulse/vibration when you tap on the display that should help with the user experience. The touch interface technology also supports motion and orientation sensors. The new S60 browser will support Flash Video and bring you a true desktop browsing experience on a mobile device.
Even more compelling is that all existing S60 3rd Edition applications will run on touch enabled devices with no modification required. Developers are certainly encouraged to optimize their applications for touch, but are not required to do anything if they do not desire to. This technology will be available to all manufacturers in 2008 and I personally can't wait to pick up a S60 touch device and will add my iPhone to my mobile device archives.