Nokia to launch phones with sensor technology

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BANGKOK, THAILAND: You are in a business meeting and the ring tone – the signature tune of Bond movies – embarrassingly alerts you of an incoming call. You don't want to take your eyes off the presentation, but want to silence the mobile with ease, such as flipping it over or tapping on it.

Many of us have gone through this experience and have wondered why handset manufacturers are not coming up with an easy way to disconnect such calls.

Finland-based mobile handset maker Nokia is set to launch such a device, which will help you silence the phone by just flipping it over or by tapping on it. This is just one among many other applications that have been developed on the S60 open mobile platform.

The mobile phone giant will introduce enhancements to the S60 user experience in its models that will hit the markets worldwide in 2008.

The new models will have intuitive touch user interface with tactile feedback, advanced sensor technologies and user interface accelerator toolkit and desktop-like video experience with FlashLite3.

"This (new Nokia models) is right around the corner," said Lee Williams, senior vice president, Technology Platforms, Nokia. "Chipmakers are already been working on it. The new technology is being built around the S60 platform," he said at the two-day Forum Nokia 2007 Summit 2.0, held in Bangkok.

Personal touch with S60 is open to new features and is flexible (with or without keyboards), intuitive (finger and stylus), familiar (fast adoption), multilingual, responsive (tactile feedback) and compatible (backward compatibility).

The multilingual facility will support 48 different languages including Hindi, Williams said.

S60 is one of the three major platforms from Nokia. Terming it a complete operating system and a complete solution, Williams said that Symbian is in the core of S60. The platform also supports Linux.

The S60 framework will enable innovations in applications and devices. It will utilize motion and orientation to interact easily with the device.

FlashLite3 will enable users to capture, store and share 3D quality videos.

Technologies being built on the S60 open mobile platform are set to usher in a new era for mobile phones. "Internet is becoming a core mobile experience. S60 on Symbian operating system leads in bringing Internet to the mobile phone," Williams added.

Nokia has so far shipped 65 different S60 products worldwide. Cumulatively, the handset maker had shipped over 100 million S60 devices by April 2007.




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