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Psion Ace... the unreleased UIQ jewel

Tuesday, 18. September 2007, 15:58:11

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Some more UIQ historical lesson today before I shutdown my entire system. This time, I present Psion ACE, only existed in a wooden prototype form and was showcased to media. They all went gaga over it's radical & extreme design.

ACE has 3 screens. In which all can be switched on to view different things. For example, you can write your To Do List on 1 screen, at the same time viewing your calendar on another screen and have a Yahoo page opened in another screen. Nothing ever come close to this...

ACE uses 4-way navi for basic control and has a camera lens located on the main unit together with a 3G radio and Bluetooth module, and a docking station is included for battery recharging (as a side note; battery technology will hopefully have improved by the time such a device hits the market, since powering three displays simultaneously would theoretically make for a battery lifetime of approximately three hours at the most.

As you can see, ACE was using Symbian OS with UIQ 1.0 interface in all 3 screens. Touch screen with stylus was the main way to enter data.

What do you think about ACE? Salivating yet... p: p: p:


The Ericsson Quartzpad Communictor ... UIQ in the early days...

Tuesday, 18. September 2007, 07:26:25

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I dont know how many current UIQ users are aware about this. UIQ was a concept first developed by Psion when it approached phone manufacturers to develop an advanced smartphone Operating System for the future. Later on, the Quartz concept is developed further by Ericsson in a small lab in Ronneby, Sweden (Ericsson Mobile Application Lab) which later on acquired by Symbian in 1999. UIQ Technology became a wholly owned subsidiary of Symbian Ltd until Sony Ericsson bought it in 2006.

One of the first working UIQ prototype that was presented to media was the Pamela aka the Ericsson Quartzpad Communicator. Which you can see in the picture below. It has 16 bit display on it's 240 x 320 screen, GPRS, BLuetooth and SD-Card for external memory and most importantly, UIQ 1.0 (Quartz) on top of Symbian OS v6.



It was the real deal back then but it did not make out of the lab to the mass market. IMHO, it stays true to Ericsson's design philosophy with that huge antenna and the "Yes" / "No" buttons. :yes:

If you find any other old UIQ prototypes, do share with me, it's cool to see all the technology that didnt make out to the public and we can measure how we have developed...

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Symbian Stuff

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