Nokia S60 Touch user interface

Details of a Nokia patent covering the rumoured Series 60 touch UI have appeared over at Unwired View. In it are ideas for an advanced interface seemingly capable of not just touch based operation but also 3D gesture recognition.
Both one and two finger commands have been developed for selecting and zooming functions or moving files, but to go beyond this and create a touchless 3D device control interface, Nokia suggest using Ultrasonic Transducers (USTs), positioned around the perimeter of the display.
Ultrasonic transducers emit ultrasonic sound waves through the air. When a finger gets into the path of these waves, the signal is reflected back and detected by the transducer. These movements can then be interpreted as various three dimensional gestures.

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ROTATEME on the Nokia N95

ROTATEME is an application which allows the screen orientation to be switched from portrait to landscape and vice versa on Symbian S60 devices.

Due to launch at the end of November, V2.0 of this app. will allow N95 users to utilise the phones built in level sensor to switch viewing angles automatically - just like the Apple iPhone.

To see this handy add-on in action click through to N95 blog