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!
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
Not related to UIQ whatsoever but I want to tell you guys the graphic-intense iPhone UI is something every phone manufacturer should watch out for the future.
Personally, I thought the iPhone is just a normal phone with super eye-candy on top of it. There’s not much to be desired and I think I would get boring when using it after 2-3 hours. However, that’s my own opinion and I welcome any comments about it
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.
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.
Yo all! I’m gonna be very tight with my schedule in the next couple of days and wont be able to post on a daily basis.
If you have suggestions to be featured in this blog, please let me know. Like app review or tips for UIQ 3 or UIQ history, stuff like that. I really appreciate that
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;
Head over to these links to read more information about the new Mini and Opera Link;
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