Nokia to launch 3 touchphones

After wetting their feet in touch with 5800 XpressMusic and then coming up with top of the line Nokia N97, they must have liked it and now are ready for more.

These new Nokia touchphones should be out as early as this fall, people “familiar with the matter” say.

According to TheStreet.com, Nokia is working on no less the 3 different thin touchscreen phones. And they will be adding haptics vibration feedback from Immersion technologies to them.

New Linux based mobile computers from Nokia

According to the Street.com one of them is what Nokia used to call Internet Tablet, will have a 4.2” touchscreen and “hidden slide-out keyboard. This Nokia MID is expected to ship in Q4, before Christmas.

Another device, codenamed Nautilus, has a very slim touchscreen design, but still sports slide-out QWERTY keyboard. A sensor is used to extend and withdraw keyboard, the keypad itself is ultrathin and features keys that rise up for easier typing. Nokia Nautilus is expected sometime in 2010.



Nokia is committing very serious resources to the development of it’s own new Linux platform (originating from Maemo but significantly rewritten and much more advanced). It will be launching the new type of mobile devices/computers/communicators based on it later this year.

The new Linux platform and devices most likely will be unveiled in late summer/early fall at a big launch event in Germany.

Samsung SPF-87H 23mm thick photo frame

Samsung announced SPF-87H, an 8-inch digital photo frame. Measuring only 23mm thick, the SPF-87H offers a 8.7 inch LCD display with a 800×480 resolution and 1GB of internal memory. Destined to launch in Korea next week for 145,000 Won ($110) and followed by other regions, the frame has almost the same set of features when you compare it other digital frames in the market.



The 23mm thick frame features a screen with a resolution of 800×480 pixels, 1GB internal memory, USB slot to charge the frame or make it work as a secondary monitor, an adapter so you could even charge it without a PC, Auto On/Off, slideshow and clock.