14 DAY TRIAL // Nokia surprised everyone, showing off a prototype of its Haptikos touchscreen system. The producer claims this product to be more evolved than anything out on the market right now, even than that of the iPhone.
Apple's phone is, in fact, the one which triggered all this huge touchscreen demand from handset users. Up to this phone's release, the technology was little appreciated, especially because it lacked touch feedback for the user and, because of this, led to a large number of errors while using.
Nokia fell behind in this trend and failed to bring out a similar response to the touchscreen challenge that Apple forwarded. Now, it looks to bring the best solution for this type of technology on the market, with the Haptikos prototype. This takes touchscreen experience one step further and looks to bring its users a real response to the inputs. More specific, it allows a 0.1 mm movement in the screen itself and also uses a pair of sensor pads under the screen, in order to allow the phone to "mimic exactly the sensation of pressing a real key".
Nokia's greatest interest is now that of making its touchscreen resemble the feeling of a real keypad as much as possible. That's what the technology tries to achieve and it's more difficult than it sounds, as many other handset manufacturers didn't make it. It looks like Nokia actually managed to make this real and bring out a touchscreen technology highly similar to the feeling of classic QWERTY keypads.
The new Haptikos technology should be shipped with the upcoming Nokia S60 Touch phone that has been only in some demos. Nokia's the team is busy working on a way to provide exact tactile replicas for scrolling and draw/paint programs. If they actually succeed to do this, there are high chances for them to revolutionize touchscreen at a similar extent to what Apple did.