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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:


Sony Ericsson's new UIQ 3 smartphones on the horizon?

Tuesday, 6. November 2007, 01:57:32

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Towards the end of the year, normally, cellphone manufacturers will announce their portfolios for the coming year. This time, there's a strong wind blowing about Sony Ericsson's next generation UIQ 3 smartphones. There are still no concrete information about what will be announced but I have collected some bits and pieces about the following specifications :

- P990 successor
- Slider form factor
- Slimmer and lighter than the P990
- 2.8" VGA screen
- Built-in GPS
- Wifi 802.11b/g
- Symbian OS v9.x ***(Ares said it's Symbian OS 9.5 - hopefully with Demand Paging!)
- New UIQ (UIQ 3.2 or 4???)
- 360MHz Processor *** (Information from Ares)
- 160MB internal memory
- 128MB RAM
- WAP 2.0
- 5 megapixel camera (with AutoFocus and flash)
- HSDPA/HSUPA
- To be announced in November
- To be available in Jun 2008 (Q3 2008)

Now, whether this will be true or not, that will have to be decided on the announcement. And many people are reporting that the announcement will be made on November 15th 2008 (that's next week, yay!). And probably, more than one UIQ 3 smartphones will be anounceed...

Meanwhile, to get the latest discussion and happenings about this so called rumour, please visit Esato board. Here and here

More photos uploaded!

Monday, 5. November 2007, 03:51:41

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Last week I was very happy when I had the chance to play with some cool gadgets. There were more than enough stuff to make me felt ultrageek for the next 3 months! First, it was the new Nokia E51 which is still in the early protoform. It is s sleek device capable of doing the other bigger Eseries can like WiFi. However, I dont really like the small screen and the overall design, it looks and feels cheap! Yeah... I think the earlier model, E50 is better in the design department. Dont get me wrong, it has many features than E50 but the design finish left so little to be desired...

Secondly, a new gadget from mainland China. This is a unique device where it uses it's own proprietary OS, huge colour screen. Can be used as a normal phone and ... pocket tv. Yup. You read that right. A terrestrial pocket tv which can play all normal tv channels found in the neighbourhood without the need to use hi-speed data. It receives analogue tv broadcast like your home tv. It's a strange device I tell you, because it has 2 slots for SIMcard, a stylus which doubles as the antenna, a 1700mAH battery... a super-loud speaker...

There's also the P1i, E61, N95, Ericsson MC 218 and the photos were all taken using P990...

Last but not least... the Jesus-phone... Check out the photos to see what I mean.. :wink: More comments will come later...


Messaging blues...

Friday, 2. November 2007, 03:07:08

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What happen when you beam a file to your UIQ 3 smartphone (via IR or BT) and you dont have any app associated with it? For example, a .ZIP file. The answer - Nothing... Because the phone cant bloody read it.





Ok. Here's what happen. I accept the file beamed to me, the phone tells me that I have a new item in the Inbox. I go to the Messaging Inbox, locate the new item, click on it. It says, "No viewer can be found... bla bla bla...". Then I click on "Save", fine... But it does not allow me to save to any location I want be it in the phone memory or the memory card... Aaarrrggghhhh!!!!! :ko:

Come on UIQ, this is 2007! At least, give a choice or a dialog to save the file to any place we want if there's no app to open it.

FYI, this behaviour have bugged me since UIQ 2 day 1 on P800. And is still the same on P1. And also the same on S60 ... Weird aint it!

And the only solution for UIQ 3 users at the moment is to use X-Plore's tool to check into the Messaging folder to locate the .ZIP file and move/copy to any location. I believe a zipper utility should be part of the OS and it MUST be out of the box experience. Not like this...



Please... share with me your grudge about this! :irked:

Possibly, next gen UIQ UI will look like this?

Thursday, 1. November 2007, 03:54:06

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In this year's Smartphone Show, Mats Lindoff, CVP & CTO of Sony Ericsson showed a couple of presentation slides and luckily, some people managed to snap some cool photos of what looked like the next-gen UIQ stuff. Could this be the "REAL DEAL"? Could this be the direction of UIQ in the future? Because frankly, all the eye candy reminisce a lot to Apple's solution. Look at the 2nd photo, the contact's layout reminds me of Apple's CoverFlow UI used in it's latest iPod and iTunes. UIQ has been in this business longer than Apple but why this? Wait... Am I being too emotional? Of course I am! I love UIQ since day one! And it's uniqueness is what differentiates it from others.

Tell me, do you want future UIQ to look like iPhone? All touchscreen and no hardware keys? ...

Source : Esato Forum and The All New Sony Ericsson Portfolio for 2008

UIQ CEO - Johan Sandberg with the same slide

http://sonyericssonblog.wordpress.com/

***Thanks to Ares who feeds me with this info! :smile:

New photos uploaded

Wednesday, 31. October 2007, 00:47:40

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In the last few days, I got a new toy to play with. It's not that very new actually, but a loaner where I need to return it to the owner in a week's time. Want to know what the toy is? Check the gallery :wink:. By the way, the album title "Old vs New" represents not only the new stuff but also the "Dinosaur" behind it. You know what I mean? :wink:

Cheers!

Motorola Z10 News Roundup

Tuesday, 23. October 2007, 15:30:59

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The title says it all... Enjoy!!! :smile:



- Stefan C of Intomobile : Motorola Z10, 3.2 megapixels and running UIQ 3.2

- Just Another Mobile Phone (JUSTAMP) Blog

- Stefan C (again...) of Intomobile : Motorola Z10 specifications, pictures and price leaked, beautiful

- New Motorola Z10 pics


Tracking your favourite stocks and weather... sounds interesting!

Tuesday, 23. October 2007, 14:17:17

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What is it actually? You need to find that out yourself. Journal Bar for Symbian UIQ 3 is now in early alpha stage and I can see it has some cool ideas behind it. However, the UI implementation is not following UIQ 3 style guideline and I found it hard to click on the tiny-weeny icons to select items. Considering that it was developed by Windows Mobile developers, I hope they will redesign the looks and feels of this app. Nevertheless, it's an interesting concept which will bring useful real-time information such as weather and stock market details directly into your UIQ 3 smartphones. Read some description about it after the screenshots... Tell me if you find this useful will ya! :smile:

Read more...


Palm OS app on UIQ smartphones are coming...

Sunday, 21. October 2007, 05:11:48

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How does it feel to be able to run other OS inside your smartphone? Bet it's going to be a whole new experience aint it? Last week in the Symbian's Smartphone Show in London, there was an announcement about Styletap, which will bring more than 20,000 existing Palm OS applications into Symbian UIQ 3 and S60 3rd Edition unchanged. Yup, you read that right. 20,000 applications!

Wait a minute, how is that possible? A look into Styletap's website reveals it's existing solution available for Windows Mobile. Thousands of users already benefited from it. StyleTap CrossPlatform is compatible with most applications written for Palm OS® devices, and enables them to now run on Symbian smartphones. This gives consumers unprecedented freedom to choose the smartphone that meets their needs without losing their investment in mobile applications and accumulated data.

Personally, I find this exciting as well as spooky :smile: If you know what I mean. There are a lot of great applications on Palm OS which are not ported to Symbian yet. For example, Natara Bonsai, a list manager with PC companion.

There's also some Palm OS app which have been ported excellently to Symbian like Dataviz's Documents To Go, DDH Software's HanDBase, and MobiMate's Worldmate. These are examples of applications which are carefully designed for the new platform.

And there's also some Palm apps which have been poorly ported to Symbian like Agendus for UIQ. Nowhere near the quality of the Palm version if you asked me.

I am excited to see how Symbian developer community will respond to this. Dont get me wrong, they have proven that they can produce excellent apps but in my opinion, many more work to be done in terms of providing high quality app to fill in the gap.

Styletap's solution is also interesting because it will attract Palm loyalists to choose Symbian. I know a friend who owns a couple of Palm Tungsten 3 and didn't choose Symbian because he's addictive to Palm's simple UI and powerful applications it has. In particular, applications to manage personal information like Agendus Pro.

I dont want to know the technical details behind it but I would really want to try it myself. However, it wont be available untill early next year.

For now, enjoy this video :wink:



Tell me, what Palm apps would you like to run in your UIQ 3 smartphones?

Where's my finance manager app?

Friday, 19. October 2007, 12:52:19

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One of the reasons I am still using a Psion 5 mx was because it's applications. There are so many Psion apps that have not found them ways to modern smartphones. And I mean a lot. One of them is a unified finance manager where I can track expenses, forecast my budgets, monitoring my bank accounts and cash and more. Applications like ABP5, RMR Bank, 5Accounts and Money are among examples of this excellent programming showed by Psion communities more than 5 years ago.



For my personal use, I prefer Palmtop's (now TomTom) Money which is truly excellent in assisting me managing my financial life. It's a simple and powerful app. And supports exporting to other formats like CSV which can be imported into MS Excel for analysis. I've been using Money for years and havent found it's equivalent on Symbian neither UIQ nor S60.



There are some existing app for UIQ3 like Epocware's Handy Expense and Lubisoft's Outlay but they are designed to track expenses and spending only. Nothing more, nothing less.

If there's something close to a unified personal finance manager for UIQ 3, it's Malcolm Bryant's jABPlite. However, it's written in Java, eats a lot of RAM and the UI is slow. It does offer account management and everything else you could expect from a good personal finance management app but it doesn't belong to UIQ 3 in terms of intuitive interface and takes a lot of clicks to do simple operations.

This is another area where UIQ 3 developers can take note and look into. I hope they read this...

So guys, how do you manage your finance using your UIQ 3 smartphone? A spreadsheet? :wink:

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Symbian Stuff

UIQ Technology News

  • Styletap CrossPlatform Brings Thousands of Mobile ...

    Toronto, Canada, October 16, 2007 – StyleTap Inc. today announced StyleTap CrossPlatform for Symbian OS™ which will allow over 20 000 existing applications to run on current and future Symbian smartphones. StyleTap CrossPlatform is compatible with most applications written for Palm OS® d ...

  • Mobile leaders to unify the Symbian software platf ...

    LONDON, UK; June 24, 2008 — Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola and NTT DOCOMO announced today their intent to unite Symbian OS™, S60, UIQ and MOAP(S) to create one open mobile software platform. Together with AT&T, LG Electronics, Samsung Electronics, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments and Vod ...

  • UIQ Technology announces Chairman of the Board

    Ronneby, Sweden, 14 May 2008 – UIQ Technology today announced that Dr. Colin Tucker has been appointed to the role of Non-Executive Independent Chairman of the Board of Directors of UIQ Technology. To promote the success of UIQ Technology, Dr. Tucker will, in addition to his role as chairman, serv ...

  • Five new themes from UIQ Technology

    UIQ Technology is happy to announce five new themes for UIQ 3 Phones. The themes are named UIQ Wave, UIQ Snow, UIQ Lounge, UIQ Black Build and UIQ Chili. The themes can be viewed and downloaded at the UIQ Themes web page.

  • UIQ Technology welcomes two new members to the UIQ ...

    The G700 and G900 are two new UIQ-powered touchscreen organizers with a broad appeal from Sony Ericsson. Both devices contain the essential tools for organizing the lives of those with busy schedules, placing personal organizer features and easy finger-touch control with familiar form factors.

My-Symbian UIQ 3 News

  • It's raining freeware ports of classic games from ...

    If you thought that AnotherGuest (a.k.a SomeOne) has rested on his laurels and stopped releasing his great free stuff then you were wrong! Starting from the end of August, he simply flooded our discussion forums with his new, fantastic (and, as always, freeware!) ports of classic PC and video games, ...

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

    SlingMedia have released their SlingPlayer Mobile for UIQ 3.x based devices. You can get it here.

  • [New] RMRBank for UIQ 3.x

    RMRBank by RMR Software is one of the most comprehensive finance package available for PDA/Smartphones. It has the usual functions of Transaction storing and reconciling, Archiving, Standing Orders and Categories.

  • [New] RMRFuel for UIQ 3.x

    RMRFuel by RMR Software allows you to monitor the fuel consumption of up to 10 vehicles. It maintains a record of Amount Paid, Cost per Gallon/litre, Distance covered and Fuel Consumption, and presents it in a text format and as a graph. A reminder function is built in for periodic servicing or oil ...

  • [New] RMRExpenses for UIQ 3.x

    RMR Expenses from RMR Software allows you to keep track of your Expenses Accounts. You can create multiple trips to record business expenses. You define named trips with an optional allowance, vehicle rate and operating currency. You can define categories for classifying expenses as meals, train, ta ...