Nokia has demoed its "Haptikos" toucscreen solution, featuring realistic feedback, many times before. One of the specialties of the screen is that by creating lumps of a changeable size on the soft surface allows the roughness and friction to be changed, thus the edges of the buttons, displayed on the graphical interface, can be felt. Otherwise the "Haptikos" screen detects pressure, so touching a key accidentally won't result in them being activated, but one has to depress the buttons, just like on a normal keyboard. Amongts the recently leaked Nokia phone radmap there has been a model called "Eitri", planned for the first half of 2009, which has a QWERTY keyboard, a 3.5", 640 x 360 display, 8 GB of expandable internal memory, a 5 megapixel camera, a digital compass, gyroscope, GPS, HSDPA and WLAN support. These would already make it a nice phone, but the words "Pressure sensitive touch UI with tactile feedback and gestures" on the data sheet suggest that this is the first handset from the manufacturer to use the Haptikos screen. Besides Nokia, Sony and Apple are also conducting serious amount of research regarding touchscreens, but it is evidently a question of prestige who will be the first to launch a touchscreen sporting realistic touch-feedback besides vibrations and sounds.
Translated by Szaszati
