17 August 2010

Nokia X3-02 Touch and Type puts a touchscreen on your Series 40 featurephone

Looks like Nokia is stepping up their game. It's about time. Pfff....


Nokia has just revealed its X3-02 handset, which does the unthinkable and marries a relatively standard 16-button keypad with a 2.4-inch QVGA touchscreen. Now, we might have our reservations about Nokia's S40 OS being able to translate to a touch-friendly UI, but the beauty of this phone is that touch comes as essentially a free extra rather than the fundamental navigation paradigm. It's augmented with 3G, 802.11n WiFi, and Bluetooth 2.1 connectivity, and the whole thing is wrapped within a 9.6mm-thin brushed aluminum shell. All that, and the X3-02 will only cost €125 (before sales taxes and subsidies, as usual) when it launches later this quarter. See it on video after the break.



Update: Nokia has informed us the X3-02 uses a resistive touchscreen, no real surprise given its price.

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