Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Nokia Shows 'Tube' iPhone Competitor in Powerpoint Slide


According to an InfoWorld piece, Nokia's VP of Forum Nokia, Tom Libretto, said that the company has been working on a touch-centric device to compete with the iPhone, and that the device has the code name of "Tube." Nokia has not formally announced the device, which was featured today in a slide shown at the Evans Data Developer Relations Conference in California. Nokia also declined to give a time frame as to when the product might be launched.
About the only details available on the as-yet unannounced device are that it will sport a new finger touch based user interface and that it will support Java applications. It does seems likely that the Tube will be the first S60 Touch based device, though S60 Touch does not appear to have been specifically mentioned.

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