Tuesday, 7. October 2008, 09:56:46
browsers, sony ericsson, smartphones, x1
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Sony Ericsson today unveiled the Xperia X1 smartphone in a press-show in Stockholm, Sweden. I have to say, it does look like an interesting phone, but I think they can learn a few things from the Apple crowd when it comes to how to make the audience interested…
The bad thing about the X1 is that it is using Windows Mobile instead of Symbian, but considering how Sony Ericsson butchered the wonderful UIQ interface from version 2 to version 3, perhaps it isn’t all that bad. One good thing that they at least had the decency to chose Opera Mobile as the default browser instead of Mobile IE.
Tuesday, 24. June 2008, 12:32:44
uiq, sony ericsson, symbian
Ny Teknik writes that Sony Ericcson is to let 200 people go from their Uiq development facility in Ronneby, Sweden, after
Nokia has announced that it is taking over Symbian and open sourcing it. This is interesting for
Opera since it has been on Symbian for a long time, and the Uiq version has been integrated and sold with the handsets, unlike the Nokia Symbian Series 60 version which has mostly
been a separate download and sold as shareware.
I used to
like Uiq a lot back in the P800 days. I first saw a demo of it at Symbian in London back in 2000, and decided that it was exactly what I wanted, and the P800 did not disappoint. I now have a Sony Ericsson P990, but unfortunately the UI has been dumbed and slowed down significantly, and is nowhere near as nice as it was on the P800. The P990 wins on features, though.
I am considering a
Sony Ericsson Xperia as my next mobile. It looks very sleek, I got to see a demo copy of it at the Elektrofil show in Oslo last weekend, but unfortunately it runs Windows CE. But if Uiq is cutting down on their staff, maybe that means that there will be no Uiq version as good as it was in the old P800, so this is the way to go forward?
Monday, 11. February 2008, 13:58:22
microsoft, sony ericsson, windows mobile
Seems like Sony Ericsson is trying to avoid putting all the eggs in one basket, their latest phone the “
Xperia X1” doesn’t run on either the Ericsson or Symbian platforms, but on Windows Mobile, just like HTC (the company previously known as Qtek). Apparently it’s not just “like” HTC, either, it is
supposedly even produced by HTC.
When I first saw the phone, I did think it looked nice. Just too bad it runs Windows Mobile and has Internet Explorer, instead of running Symbian and using Opera. If it had been the latter, this would most definitely be a mobile phone that I would consider. Now I am more looking for a Walkman-branded upgrade for the P990i with a built-in GPS. That would be the überphone.
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