Nokia Concept Phones: The Next Communicator?

   

During the S60 Fifth Edition webcast, there were a couple slides that showed a generic touch-screen concept device. Normally, this wouldn’t be news except for this questionable picture on one slide:


Nokia's latest Communicator-ish Concept Device

So the left image is your stereotypical hand holding a stereotypical Nokia S60 phone. Fair enough. Now fast forward like 20 seconds later, and we get to the right image: the same S60 phone, now being used in landscape mode with a keyboard that materialized out of nowhere. Here’s what Cell Passion had to say about this one:

“The device seems to be an all-touchscreen phone that converts into a Communicator when the ‘pencil box’ form-factor is opened. According to the image, the touchscreen would then swivel to face the keyboard, which also seems to be a... ... read more (www.nokiaphoneblog.com)