UIQ was the system used in SonyEricssons smartphones, but its benifits now seem to become worthless. Symbian Foundation has yet not got access to the parts that UIQ was supposed to contribute with.
The Symbian Foundation director Lee Williams is appointed to operate the operating system Symbian in cooperation with developers, manufacturers, operators and others. The system will soon be found in mobile phones from Samsung, LG, Nokia and Sony Ericsson. But the promised contribution from Swedish UIQ has still not been seen.
- Because UIQ Technologies has gone bankrupt we have not been able to get our hands on the contribution from UIQ for Symbian Foundation, he says in an exclusive interview with Mobil.
Therefore, as it stands today, even with contributions from others the contribution from Nokia to Symbian Foundation is unproportional large.
- UIQ has several assets, for instance I think there are some good things in the user interface. The calendar was one of them.
But now it starts to become too late, rather than waiting on UIQ the work proceeds and in short says Lee Williams will corresponding function be developed by Symbian Foundation.
In Symbian Foundation one can find manufacturers such as Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Samsung, but also operators, chip manufacturers and others.
The code is supposed to be open and to this project Nokia is supposed to contribute with Symbian and S60, the japanese Fujitsu is supposed to contribute with MOAP(S) and Sony Ericsson with UIQ.
It appears now that Sony Ericsson's contribution in this form will become absent, even if they still are part of the organisation and will launch their first mobile with Symbian Foundation in the form of Idou, which will come later this year.
The last smartphone from Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 is a Windows mobile, but so far the only windows mobile handset. Previously and then in for example phones like P800, P900 and P1 Symbian was the base and above it UIQ. Even Motorola used Symbian and UIQ in a couple of their smartphones.
Via: Mobil.se ( Google Translate)
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