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Announcing www.uiqblog.com

Tuesday, 11. December 2007, 15:59:22

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All,
http://www.uiqblog.com
This is it folks. After months of posting using http://my.opera.com/asrialbaker/blog , The UIQ Evangelist has a new home now. A more flexible and customisable solution for more advanced features. The posts from the old blog has been manually imported using the ancient method of copy and paste. Painful it is but it must be done. And you can see all the posts previously available here are now available there.

Hence, this olde UIQ Evangelist will not be updated and all activities will be from the new URL. I thank all of you for the supports and please give your support to the new blog as well... :smile:

cheers!

What? SE Extends partnership with QuickOffice? Why not Dataviz's Docs To Go?

Wednesday, 5. December 2007, 17:29:47

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According to this press release, a multi-year agreement between Sony Ericsson and QuickOffice has been signed to provide all future Sony Ericsson smartphones with QuickOffice, which they said is the leading provider of mobile office software and solutions. Pfffttt ...

Well, I beg to differ... Being a heavy MS Word and Excel user, I found that the bundled QuickOffice in SE UIQ 3 smartphones are not up to industry standard. Opening huge files is a problem, documents round-tripping is bad. Formatting and images are not displayed. And many more bugs and "features" that should not come from a company that has been around for ages, since the Palm OS days. If QuickOffice is serious in bringing it's solution forward, these problems should have been addressed via firmware upgrades but I have not seen it. It stays the same. QuickOffice on my P990 is one of those applications that I NEVER opened, NEVER used, and NEVER touched because of my BAD experience with it.

For me, the best solution for my DOC and XLS on my SE UIQ 3 smartphones is still, Dataviz's Docs To Go. No fuss, no worries. Documents stay the same no matter how many times been edited. It's not perfect, it has many niggles but not as bad as QuickOffice. At least, if my DOC files have embedded photos or diagrams in it, Word To Go can show them to me.

Yeah, many stuff have been added like the QuickManager and Office 2007 compatibility but do we UIQ 3 users really need them? Tell me, do you prefer QuickOffice over Docs To Go or the other way round?

UIQ Fast Track is over. DusanB reports

Monday, 3. December 2007, 12:35:15

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Dusan Belic of Intomobile was lucky enough to attend UIQ Fast Track event in Budapest, Hungary and had some stuff to report to us as well. Here are the summary of his reports :

http://www.intomobile.com/2007/11/29/uiq-fast-track-keynotes-recap.html
http://www.intomobile.com/2007/11/30/uiq-fast-track-is-over-here-are-my-impressions.html
http://www.intomobile.com/2007/11/29/interview-with-uiqs-elisabet-melin-and-naresh-chouhan.html

You have to visit all the links above to understand what really happens. As for me, I'm kinda felt left out because most Symbian/UIQ related events are held either in Europe or States and not South East Asia.... :wink: To UIQ PR Department... I've been blogging about UIQ stuff earlier than anybody else on the planet :wink:... Hahahaha

My review of Easy Search UIQ 3 is published in AAS

Wednesday, 28. November 2007, 16:38:36

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Those of you who longed for a universal search utility for UIQ 3 smartphone, should rejoice because you can enjoy Easy Search and frankly, I like it very much and it's one of those apps where you will use it when you really need it. Head over to AllAboutSymbian to read my thoughts about it. Definitely recommended :wink:


Linkboy 1.30 released - with lots of enhancements

Tuesday, 27. November 2007, 03:46:58

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I followed the development of this app closely and I must say that what the developer (CellphoneSoft) did was really impressive. Linkboy is essentially an application launcher or shortcuts if you prefer... to launch not only applications but some other things as well like Control Panel stuff without going to dig into the Main Menu (Application Launcher) and opening Control Panel to find the stuff that we want.

This one is taken straight from it's official website describing the new version :
LinkBoy provides up to 45 shortcuts to frequently used tasks, that can be displayed as executable icons on the standby screen. Shortcuts are available for the full range of applications, phone settings, multimedia files, web pages, contact actions, and common tasks. All key functions of the built-in standby screen are left intact by LinkBoy.

NEW in version 1.30:
-Three independent sets of shortcuts.
-Full functionality in flip closed mode of the P990.
-Active shortcut types that display calendar events, memory status, or sticky note.
-Function shortcut types to switch between shortcut sets, or hide the icon panel.
-Enhanced customization of icon panel appearance.
-Numerous additional features, improvements and bugfixes.


Check it out!!! :smile:

Desktop Agenda - A Today plugin on the standby screen!

Monday, 26. November 2007, 03:35:01

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One of the 'missing link' in UIQ 3 applications is the display of calendar stuff on the main screen. Especially in the P990. In Sony Ericsson's UIQ 3 smartphones, the main screen is called 'Activity Menu'. Dont ask me why... However, on M600, W950, P1 & W960, the Activity Menu is improved, you can configure them to display some calendar stuff together with other infos.

Out of nowhere, Ares in his post in My-Symbian.Com forum submitted a link to a small application called Desktop Agenda which IMHO, adds real value to P990's standby screen. It's actually a small app (the SIS file is only 29kb!). It reads the built-in database and displays them on the standby screen. here's how it looks like :


The setting is truly a no brainer. Even a schoolkid can configure it. For P990 users, it even works in FC mode. However, since this app is in very early stage of it’s development, it sometimes gets killed by the system and there are a few quirks like the non-adjustable transparency level and so on.


It’s a nice addition to the UIQ 3 applications catalogue and I really looking forward to it being developed further.


Will Sony Ericsson announce new stuff this November 15th? Or will not?

Monday, 12. November 2007, 02:15:41

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According to The Unofficial Sony Ericsson Blog, there will be NO ANNOUNCEMENT on November 15th. Infact, he cited that, Aldo Ligouri, Head of Global Communications & PR at Sony Ericsson, replied :

"Thanks for the additional information, but I’ve done a search and can confirm that we have no plans to make any new product announcement in November. What we announced last week, on the 6th, is the last product announcement we’ll be making this year. All Sony Ericsson product announcements, regardless of their nature, are handled and co-ordinated by my group in London. I don’t know where your source has heard this information but it’s not true"

Heh... Looking at the situation right now, we have about a month and a half to end this 2007. If SE does not plan to announce new stuff this month, maybe they will do after new year... who knows...???

But frankly, I cant wait to get a glimpse of the new UIQ 3 stuff prepared for us :wink:

Support this developer - The Bergamot Project

Sunday, 11. November 2007, 11:07:58

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It's hard to find developers who are willing to loose some sleeps in order to give us UIQ 3 users something different to make our devices more useful. How many freeware UIQ 3 developers who released free software for us and keep on improving their apps? I can only recall GDesk, Free Swiss Manager, Malcolm Bryant, AnotherGuest, ... who else?

Now, this one developer you guys should keep track. His Google hosted porject page - The Bergamot Project - Open source for Symbian/UIQ currently hosts 2 applications. Swim and PodcastPlayer.

I respect this guy for developing new and interesting stuff. Please guys... Show your support. Give him feedbacks after testing his apps...

And while you are looking at his website, dont forget to check his future project, porting S60 Browser to UIQ 3! Simply, he said "......because UIQ needs a decent web browser... Bring it on!!!!

Ewan interviews UIQ Technology CEO, Johan Sandberg

Tuesday, 6. November 2007, 11:23:42

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This one is taken straight from AAS. "Johan Sandberg has been a busy man in the last few weeks, with announcements from UIQ and a number of new devices from partners for the Chistmas season making an impact. I managed to catch up with him at the recent CTIA Wireless and Entertainment Show in San Francisco to find out what's going on in the world of UIQ.

We touch on a number of issues in this interview from CTIA in San Francisco, starting with the impact of the ownership by Sony Ericsson and then Motorola coming along and taking a 50% stake. What sort of practices do UIQ have in place to treat their owners and other licencees fairly? And have they learned anything from observing Nokia’s push to make S60 a platform over a number of handset manufacturers?

And of course UIQ isn’t developed in a vacuum, there’s a huge history to the product that has influenced UIQ3, and competing devices are constantly introduced to the market, including the Apple iPhone. Can hype ever rival technology?"

I have listened to the podcast and I enjoyed it. Johan explains the decision behind what happened in UIQ in the last couple of weeks and also some insight of the UIQ future... Check this out!
Multimedia from All About Symbian

If you haven't got Opera Mini 4 beta 3 yet, what are you waiting for?

Thursday, 25. October 2007, 17:21:03

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A short post. Just to tell everybody that the new Opera Mini 4 Beta 3 is freakin awesome!!! It has a new function which can sync with Opera Link. I am not going to write about this in detail coz I'm very busy right now but suffice to say that I'm in love with this and ;-) Head over to these links to read more information about the new Mini and Opera Link;

http://my.opera.com/operamini/blog/converging-your-web-browsing-with-opera-mini4

http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/2007/10/25/

http://www.opera.com/products/link/

Ciao!

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My-Symbian UIQ 3 News

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  • [New] SlingPlayer now available for UIQ 3.x

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