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Cool. Looks like the HTC Touch Diamond (and presumably the HTC Touch Diamond Pro) can actually do multi-touch. Not only multi-touch on the screen itself, but all the way down around the navi-wheel and buttons. The feature is revealed when using HTC’s Nav Debug Tool but so far doesn’t have any practical use beyond simple testing.

There are a host of new ways to interact with the new S60 Touch OS. With the addition of a touch-input interface, the S60 Touch UI will obviously accommodate finger-taps on the screen. But, the most important aspect of S60 Touch will be the web-browsing interface.

It is not a secret any more that Nokia is preparing to launch their first S60 Touch UI, also called Nokia Tube, with a series of mobile devices for mid to high end users. The first mobile phone you would see is the Nokia 5800 XpressMedia, featuring a wide screen with 16:9 ratio and support GSM Quadband network, built in bluetooth, GPS, WiFi and  HSDPA/UTMS.

TouchXperience UI Demo Video Here are five video clip demonstrating TouchXperience User Interface for Windows Mobile. TouchXperience is the Next Generation User Interface for Windows Mobile, finger friendly and highly customizable, it offers many interesting features: program launcher, contacts

S60 is feature-rich software for smartphones with advanced data capabilities. Based on the Symbian OS, it includes an application suite, user interface framework, and middleware components. The flexibility of S60 allows for a variety of hardware designs and software configurations.

Charlie Kalech just twittered the prayer news that the MacBook Touch — that mythical Apple-branded touchscreen notebook computer — will hit the market by October. He links to Apple Insider (although I don’t see an item there). I hope he’s right. I’m glad I’ve held out on upgrading my PowerBook.

S60 Touch UI Nothing can be kept a secret - including Nokia’s upcoming touch S60 UI.  Photos have emerged online and show the latest for the Symbian S60 platform.  Is this what we can expect on Nokia’s XpressMedia 5800 “Tube”? Jump below for a few more photos of the UI in action.

What we have here are the first screenshots of the upcoming S60 Touch platform. From what we can tell, all that additional space beyond QVGA is used in a best way. Going through images or watching a video will be a real pleasure on a device using the S60 Touch.

Care to see how the VGA screens of future touch-based Nokia devices would look like. Here are a few screenshots. While the screenshots don’t really provide more details about the S60 Touch UI, one thing that’s certain is that there will only be minor changes to the existing one.

Aza Raskin write about avoiding modalities. “What’s wrong with modal overlays? In a word, they are modal: You are either interacting with the content or the overlay. Modal overlays don’t allow you to refer back and forth between two sources of information, or move fluidly between two actions.