Nokia E90 launch this week, entirely new type of mobile next year

Came across this undated post from Unwired View (probably very recently) since the Nokia N77 was just released -

In addition to the launch of the N77, the Nokia E90 Communicator is being launched in Finland this week as well.

According to the interview given to E24.se news portal by Antti Vasara, GM of Mobile Devices Business Unit, the E90 will start shipping in small quantities first in Finland, then Indonesia and will eventually reach Sweden this August. When the rest of us will see it is still not clear, since, according to Mr. Vasara, the E90 is a complicated piece of equipment and hard to produce in large quantities at first.

Other interesting bits of information revealed in the interview:

• Nokia is not too enthusiastic about touchscreens, since all their tests had shown that users prefer keyboard and joystick for an input device. But they are ready for touchscreens if they see the demand.
• Consumers don’t like to learn using new shapes/form factors on mobile phones. That’s why the E70 isn’t selling well.
• Nokia will be launching an entirely new type of mobile next year

It appears Nokia is taking a wait and see approach with the iPhone and the LG Prada touchscreen phones and will have an answer if the sales of these handsets take off.