After iPhone/iPod Touch for Mac OSX Mobile from Apple and TouchFLO for Windows Mobile from HTC comes a new sensor and touch screen technology for the S60 platform from Nokia, the S60 Touch. Nokia has announced new hardware and software features at the Symbian Smartphone Show such as an intuitive S60 touch screen user interface, finger motion based sensor technology, vibration based tactile force feedback and Flash video integration.

Salient features of the new features in this announcement include:

+ The touch user interface in S60 offers a variety of input methods, such as touch screen with a traditional keypad, touch screen with a qwerty keyboard or touch screen alone, supporting both finger or stylus optimized input.

+ S60 touch user interface comes with support for tactile feedback, which means that there is a physical pulse and feedback when the user taps on the screen. Read about VibeTonz Mobile tactile force feefback technology covered previously here.

+ S60 brings sensor support to the platform as a generic solution enabling support for a range of sensors in S60 devices.

+ Nokia will integrate Adobe Flash Lite 3 with S60 mobile browsers for streaming FLV videos