The looming launch of the iPhone has inspired all manner of debate about whether the average consumer can get by with just a touchscreen. Nokia, for one, thinks tiny QWERTY keypads are on the way out, to be replaced by touchscreens and optical sensors that would detect movement of the phone.
"I believe there will be a lot of innovation around these," said Nokia CTO Tero Ojanpera, imagining phone that initiate a call home with a shake or switch to Web-browsing mode with a quarter turn.
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