The UIQ Evangelist

Martin Krischik released HP45, a full featured Emulator of the classic HP45 calculator for UIQ3.

More details here.

Categories: Apps, Links, Open source, Symbian, UIQ 3.0
Tags: Apps, hp45, martin krischik, Open source, Symbian, UIQ, UIQ 3.0

This is what Dan Marlin said in the official CorePlayer Forum “hew!…. hard work and just in time for the weekend (and Bike Week down here in Daytona Florida).

So here is it CorePlayer Mobile v1.2.0 ‘preview’ for Symbian S60 and UIQ. Released as;

- Symbian S60 v2
- Symbian S60 v3 (digitally signed)
- Symbian UIQ v2
- Symbian UIQ v3 (digitally signed)

So, whats new? Well since our last ‘Beta’ Symbian release, this version has the largest amount of overall changes/additions/fixes. But the biggest thing many ppl will find is the stability. This was a top priority for us with this milestone.

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Categories: Apps, Comments
Tags: Apps, Symbian, UIQ, UIQ 3.0

The the chat with UIQ we talked before, happened today.

As expected, Sebastien Peirone and Carina Dietmann from UIQ kept the same extremely diplomatic stance showed on our 10 questions to uiq feature and avoided the really tricky questions by answering its their “costumers/shareholders” responsability (meaning, Sony Ericsson and Motorola) to most of the questions.

I think we all agree its time for the aforementioned to folow UIQ´s example and start comunicating with users, so that we can have some answers.

Go after the break for a full transcrip of the chat (more…)

Categories: Events, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, Symbian, UIQ, UIQ 3.0, UIQ 3.1, UIQ 3.2, Web
Tags: Motorola, Sony Ericsson, Symbian, UIQ, UIQ 3.0

(Screenshots above showing the Motorola Z8 font on the right and the original P1i font on the left) This is something I did a long time ago but never have the opportunity to publish it. And I think it has been covered somewhere in the internet. I mean, changing fonts on UIQ 2 smartphones was very easy with the aid of a must-have app called SMan but on UIQ 3, it’s not the same case. Before you decide to follow this tutorial, I strongly advise you guys to be cautious because while it works for me and many others, there’s no guarantee it will also work on your devices. (more…)

Categories: Comments, Tips, UIQ 3.0
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It seems that slowly things are really starting to improve on the UIQ3 apps scene.

One of the biggest gripes we all have with our OS of choice, is seeing popular apps being released for s60 v3, while we are normaly left with a underpowered java version.

Google Maps was one of those cases: for some months, s60 v3 users had access to a native symbian version, with inclusion of the much talked my location feature. Meanwhile, we had the same old slow java app, with no my location feature.

Well, we are pleased to announce that Google has finally released a native UIQ3 version, with my location included, for UIQ3! Go to www.google.com/gmm from your phone browser to get the new version.

[thanks to cubii from my-symbian for the heads up]

Categories: Apps, Symbian, UIQ, UIQ 3.0
Tags: google maps, P1, P990, Symbian, UIQ, UIQ 3.0

What you see above is the game SSX 3 running on a W960. This game is preinstalled in the latest W960 firmware version. As you can see, the game is clearly using 3d hardware acceleration, that alows it to pull some really impressive graphics withou harming the playability.

Lets hope this is a sign of things to come in terms of UIQ gaming.

Note: according to people who tested the game, it is VERY heavy on RAM.

[Via USEB]

UPDATE: UIQ3 hacker master WL as managed to get hold of the file, so every UIQ3 user can now test the game. To use the game properly on the P1, WL recomends that we install the game on memory card and:

rename all 10274BF9***.txt files into 2000f611***.txt (delete first 2000f611***.txt before renaming), path: mmc:\private\2000D856\2000f611***.txt

Categories: Firmware, Games, Media, Sony Ericsson, Symbian, UIQ, UIQ 3.0, UIQ 3.1, Web
Tags: Games, ssx 3, Symbian, UIQ, UIQ 3.0, w960

Swedish mag Mobil will have a chat session with UIQ next friday.

Right now they are asking people to start posting some questions to pose to UIQ. You can participate here.

[thanks to Eggs from my-symbian for the heads up!]

Categories: Events, Mobile, Operating Systems, Symbian, UIQ, UIQ 3.0, UIQ 3.1, UIQ 3.2, Web
Tags: Symbian, UIQ, UIQ 3.0

This time, its from phonearena.

Categories: Coming Soon, Sony Ericsson, Symbian, UIQ, UIQ 3.0
Tags: g series, g700, g900, Sony Ericsson, Symbian, UIQ, UIQ 3.0