I still cannot believe this video was really shown there. I just can’t. It’s just not the right way to do this IMHO. I also understand that maybe they just want to show that someday s60 will also feature touchscreen (not news on symbian world like the series 90) but I still can’t believe it.

I know and understand that is not about doing something using some basic gestures or interactions but is just the way it was placed. Showing a very simple thing, in A VIDEO, that brings NOTHING new to the table and just position the company like this.

“Hey, We can also do this, expect it next year, but for know here’s a video of what we are capable”

I’ve already written here, and I will write it again:

Now is not time to think how to beat the iPhone, or how to make something similar. We all know that there’s a time to market that is quite big, so you actually need to think what would we do 2 years from know, and start doing that not a iPhone inspired phone just for the sake of having one.

So if this really happened, I’m really really sad about it, because Nokia will not for sure need to do this.
Ok, there’s no way to avoid automatic rotation (like that done by our 2 years old canon camera) or the pinch gesture once you have the multi touch(not invented by apple) because it’s just natural( and just to remember not invented by apple also). The same way apple did a lot of things that were invented by the pioneers in the mobile world, or even like apple copied the graphical user interface from Xerox without remorse (thanks) because that’s the beauty : take a good idea, and use it, but please try to improve it and make it with a lot of competence.

All of this in a day of glory, with such a wonderful collection of new devices: