November 2008
While Apple and Google are already using touchscreens for their mobile phones, Nokia looks like it may have an alternative in mind for future handsets. Alastair Curtis, chief designer at Nokia, has hinted that Nokia might be about to bypass the basic touchscreen and go with gesture inputs instead.
Gesture inputs work much like a touchscreen, but don't actually involve touching the screen.Your finger actions are performed above the screen in mid-air, but still very close to it.
Nokia did file a patent for gesture input in June 2006, which involved the use of ultrasound sensors allowing for movement to be registered without touch.
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