Nokia to Release N-Series Touchscreen Phone

It seemed highly unlikely for Nokia to keep the N-series basic – if basic is a term that can be used to describe this series. One thing that was certain, however, was that the Finnish company would do something innovative and take the phones one step further.

Rumors have been circulating for some time regarding touchscreen technology added to the future N-series phones, and this weekend, they were confirmed. At a Nokia event in New Delhi, Devinder Kishore, director of marketing, Nokia India, said that, “We will have lot of touchscreen phones coming up, including an N-series device very soon.”

The N-series from Nokia is known as a product family that brings users multimedia smartphones supporting digital multimedia services like music playback, video capture, photography, this together with the mobile gaming experience and Internet services. It would quite abnormal if an N-series device did not support at least one high-speed wireless technology like 3G or Wireless LAN.

Lately, the N-series phones have showed their high degree of versatility, when director Mike Hodgkinson filmed Eskimohunter's Surfing at 32°F video using N95, N93 and N93i. “Everything I imagined, the Nokia Nseries devices let me create. I really wanted to push the Nokia equipment to its limits, and each responded brilliantly. I’ve taken Nseries devices underwater, attached them to helium balloons and dangled them 100 feet above the Los Angeles River… and I’ve never lost a shot.” Hodgkinson said.

Going back to what Devinder Kishore said, we must take in consideration what "very soon" might mean, since it is unsure whether we'll get to see the new N-series touchscreen phones at the end of this year or at the beginning of 2009. Either way, let's hope that we'll have more information coming our way really soon, and perhaps even some leaked images of a touchscreen N-series device.