U Can't Touch This...
The iPhone is a success, period.
Today I've just read two news that confirm that the market is changing consequently to the shipment of the iPhone: Nokia is presenting at Symbian Smartphone Show a new touch interface for the S60 operating system while Motorola and SonyEricsson are working together to improve the UIQ User Interface.
S60 Touch
YouTube Video: S60 Touch.
My comment on this 2 news:
Nokia's concept video is ok, it's a reaction the iPhone phenomenon but there's a stylus in the concept? Are they crazy? The palm/stylus user experience is the worst thing that Nokia can put in place to answer to the iPhone designers. Everything on the iPhone is designed to be touched by fingers and also there are no physical buttons to mess up the user paradigm: everything that matter to users happens on the screens. Simple as that.
UIQ: well Motorola isn't known for his "great" user interface and SonyEricsson is changing the core UI aspects of their phones accordingly to other brands experiences like CyberShot and PSP. Let's wait and see the results. Only one suggestion: be fast and be perfect, we know that is a pretty tough job.
UPDATE:
seems that touch is not the only way to innovate: the brand new Nokia Internet Table comes with a full (physical) QWERTY keyboard.
PS
The title comes from an old MC Hammer song!
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