DigiTimes has a couple of back-to-back rumors from its industry sources that could be of interest to all of us Nokia fans. Yesterday, the Taiwanese rumor rag said that Nokia are going to adopt a Synaptics touchscreen integrated circuit (which may or may not support multi-touch) solution for an upcoming “high-end handset” due for launch in the 3rd quarter of 2009. To be clear, this is not the N97 which is expected to go on sale in June. Now DigiTimes adds that capacitive touch panel orders from Nokia have been received from Wintek, the same supplier which Nokia use to fit the 5800 with resistive touchscreens.

 The image below demonstrates how a Capacitive Touch Screen  Works:

I’m a big fan of the capacitive screen on both the iPhone and iPod Touch so this would be great if it turns out to be true. This would mean no more stylus or hard pushes on the screen to launch things. Just one smooth tap or slide accross the LCD. I may have to hold from buying an N97 in June and wait untill quarter 3 of this year to see what this device turns out to be.

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