The UIQ Evangelist

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

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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.

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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.

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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

Have a nice weekend ahead!

Cheers!

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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;

http://my.opera.com/operamini/blog/converging-your-web-browsing-with-opera-mini4

http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/2007/10/25/

http://www.opera.com/products/link/

Ciao!

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The title says it all… Enjoy!!!

- 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

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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!

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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 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.

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

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