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At the end of August Nokia has caused a lot of turbulence at her press conference in London where Nokia showed a touchscreen device. The speculations about the device, which was eventually not announced at the pressconference, almost overruled the real introduction of the Nokia N81 and the Nokia N95 8GB at this day. Until now there are still speculations about the touchscreen device from the Nokia video.

A highly informed source has confessed to Mobile PHone Helpdesk that Nokia is developing a touchscreen device. Nokia has been developing this device for over three years now. The video of the touchscreen device that Nokia showed at the pressconference is more than 2.5 years old according to our source and since then it has had a huge make-over concerning appearance, software and interface.

At the Symbian Smartphone Show today, which is held these days in London, a highly remarkable touchscreen device was shown to the public again. The device in the video did not carry a brand but it will probably concern a recent variant of the concept device of Nokia, which could be Nokia’s answer to the iPhone.

At Nokia’s pressconference at the 29th of AUgust this year, Nokia announced a toally new interface for future Nokia devices. The unknown device that Symbian showed at her presentation is equipped with a highly progressive interface which looks a lot like the recently announced Nokia interface.

Symbian prepares, probably taken by Nokia’s hand, an attack to the Apple iPhone. This became clear by the earlier photo. Besides this, Symbian slaps Apple right in the face with the quote "Symbian, Open", something that is quite a large point of critique on the Apple iPhone. The software of the iPhone is so closed that there can be no clue of a operating system where developers can develop applications for. In this, Apple wants to keep in charge. On the contrary, Symbian is open according to themselves.

Another image from the video shows the real view on photos, videos and music. At this photo we can also clearly see that Apple, with the launch of such a device by for example Nokia, could expect a lot of competition.

If the device is really a Nokia remains unclear. Our source did not want to confirm this. Fact is that such a touchscreen device is not something we can expect any time soon. According to our source such a device will show up at the end of 2008 and this is the soonest moment that is expected and not as is generally expected, at the upcoming Mobile World Congress in February 2008.

To the question who was earlier our source said: "Apple first managed to bring a device to the market with a revolutionary interface. With this, Apple has the advantage that they have not brought a device to the market in earlier times and with this they do not have acceptance problems in comparison to older products. Nokia has been developing such a device for three years now, but they first have to cope with questions round the acceptance of the device and the new interface with the consumer. In this, Nokia has to keep her name high. That is one of the main reasons that Nokia has not brought the device already".

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