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The Register on UIQ

Friday, 21. November 2008, 13:13:57

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The Register has a look back on UIQ, the graphical user interface that powered Sony Ericssons high-end smartphones for several years until being dropped earlier this year. The article has some interesting background information on how UIQ evolved from Psion’s “Quartz” UI, and the rise and fall of the Sony Ericsson “P” series smartphones.

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No more UIQ phones from Sony Ericsson

Tuesday, 4. November 2008, 14:31:43

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Sony Ericsson has announced that they will not produce any more phones based on UIQ. That is a shame, since I believe UIQ to be the best GUI ever to be produced for a mobile phone so far, but was not that unexpected after they let 200 go from Uiq back in June.

At least it used to be, the version used in the P800/900/910 and early Motorolas was the easiest and most user-friendly GUI I have ever used, whereas the version used in the P990 and later is complete and utter crap.

I have been looking into the Xperia, but it has two major drawbacks for me: It doesn’t have the same ports as the P990, meaning that I need to get a new set of docking stations, chargers and external speakers, and it is running Windows Mobile.

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Apple is the new Microsoft, again

Wednesday, 29. October 2008, 19:47:11

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Microsoft has been bashed several times for anti-competitive behaviour, by trying to tout their own products over those of their competitors. Now it seems that Apple, in their trying to copy Microsoft’s success, is doing the same.

Håvard writes that Apple is blocking Opera Mini for the Iphone from entering their Application Store, since it competes with Safari. Apparently Apple doesn’t like competing software, just like how they don’t like competing hardware.

Another reason not to buy an Iphone, I guess. Not that I was going to, anyway. I was considering the Xperia, but it seems not to be compatible with the Sony Ericsson accessories I have, and I don’t feel like buying yet another set of chargers, docking stations and headsets. So I am stuck with my trusty ol’ P990i, which does run the latest Opera Mini, even if the latest Opera Mobile beta doesn’t work on it. :frown:

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Sony Ericsson to let 200 go from Uiq

Tuesday, 24. June 2008, 12:32:44

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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?

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