UIQ is going nowhere, Sony Ericsson are done with it
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- Anonymous
- kWP
- 23 Oct 2008
$v€n, 23 Oct 2008I'm glad.
My advice is to ban all OS systems other than Mi... moreWhy? WinMo is so ugly without amazing stuff to hide it like touch flo.
As of Feb 07, symbian has 67% of the smart phone market, windows with 13%, and blackberry with 10%.
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- Yav
- mHj
- 23 Oct 2008
ive have all the P series
P800 was new so it was ok
P900 was a good improvement
P910 was very stable and fast
P990 WAS SHOCKINGLY BAD
P1i,,,, as much as the P990 was crap, i LOVE my P1i
But the reality of it all is: UIQ was/is a slightly messy UI (i am the biggest fan of it, but have to admit it). i can say that, because i work in the CPW in UK and selling one in not easy. i have often provided free personal advise/help to people i have converted to UIQ after sale through customers contacting me through my personal email.
so, SE was never going to make UIQ profitable!
it is therefore a smart move as they NEED to concentrate hard to make Symbian Foundation work for them as everyone are rising their game.... from WM to Google and Apple.
the winners of course are always us, the consumer, as they battle it out and improve their OS.
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- $v€n
- Sgr
- 23 Oct 2008
I'm glad.
My advice is to ban all OS systems other than Microsoft Windows Mobile Pro,
wich in my opinion is the bets Operating System on the market.
Take an axample of the Xperia, wich made me trust Sony Ericsson again.
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- boyboy
- uEx
- 23 Oct 2008
So sad.. I should take care my beautiful SE M600 white. I am satisfied enough with UIQ intarface.
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- Symbian Freak
- 0nV
- 22 Oct 2008
Thats good news because now we have S60 with touch UI in Nokia 5800 & soon we will see many Samsung phones with S60 touch..this will reduce the misleading and help developers "when they develop for S60 they dont care touch or not UIQ or not because it will run on any device because they are all S60".
Bye Bye UIQ...SE dont deserve you and its good for you to die and dont live under the protection of this company.
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- UIQ is so dead, I HA
- EP5
- 22 Oct 2008
I'm just glad its over! I can't stand it! Its the WROST OS ever created. I had it with Nokia and SE, I wouldn't buy a Phone with UIQ on it. My next Phone will either be iPhone or GPhone.
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- cro_blue
- 3iH
- 22 Oct 2008
Too bad for UIQ. I hope that Sony Ericsson shall use S60 instead Windows Mobile.
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- A K
- pMA
- 22 Oct 2008
Well after all it was Sonyericsson's falt that UIQ had such a bad reputation... The platform had a good start, but with the p990 things got really bad...
byebye UIQ
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- Bart
- n7Y
- 22 Oct 2008
only UIQ? i would say that SE is done for it.
Bring back Ericsson and then the world will be safe, in terms of mobile phones
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- Norman
- 0ZE
- 22 Oct 2008
Good Decision for SE, I had my P990i for 16mos now and everyday was a headache. A lot of bugs that wasn't fixed. No Followup support afterwards. And then they had P1i, after upgrading the RAM still the same old problems was there but just hidden due to the system response which is much faster than P990i. Looking forward on using windows mobile cause I've been A Fan of SE eversince. I had K608i and W890i aside from P990i and was very satisfied of it.
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- Parag
- up6
- 22 Oct 2008
I was a big fan and very hopeful for UIQ and sad to learn of its impending demise. And SE have only themselves to blame for it falling apart. Just cannot fathom their logic (or the lack of it) in crippling the devices. Just to give a few examples - 3G but no EDGE, EDGE but no 3G, 3G but no Wifi, walkman phone without autofocus camera, K series and cyber shot camera phones but no megabass, no dedicated audio chip on walkman phones, videos in QCIF resolution, ad nauseum. And as if that is not enough, overpricing the devices over and above handsets with similar or many times much better specifications and insanely expensive accessories.
WTF is the matter with you SE? You think you can always command a premium just because of the Sony name? Do you really intend to make mobile phones or jump into oblivion? Wake up and smell the coffee... before you RIP forever
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- brynn
- nGx
- 22 Oct 2008
p800/p900/p910 all were superb then out came p990i and that was it for me..
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- ars
- n{x
- 22 Oct 2008
'cos se never made fully loaded phone,no vga video,weak cameras an so on so people buy smarts by nokia or samsung,htc at the moment,it's a pitty just look at japanese se...or only sony.?just put japanese se so905ics against nokia95,clear winner se!why se can't make good phone worldwide?
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- 95CuEMaSTeR95
- w4J
- 22 Oct 2008
@Mufaddal
ํYou are right, SE can doom the love you start with the products anytime.
UIQ that have a little supported programs will have no new programs after this news.
Now UIQ is realy R.I.P. after its haft-death long time ago.
Same with SE, UIQ R.I.P. means that smartphone's market of SE also R.I.P. too.
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- Mufaddal
- uNW
- 22 Oct 2008
I am so much dishearted with SE's decision. I just loved SE mobile phones for this. I loved SE's UIQ interface. It was so much good. I just dont know what to say.
I wished so much if SE introduced Touch interface similar to Iphone on UIQ...Then I guarantee it would be the best platform ever...
I am dishearted yar... I dont know I started loving P1i. And am anxiously waiting for X1-Xperia, but with this decision I have to give second thought because SE can doom the love you start with the products anytime :(
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- volkan
- MZV
- 22 Oct 2008
why do my favourite operating system is in Rest In Peace session? wheres my touch-screen UIQ phone? i think the success of p910 and p990 has forgotten.
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- 95CuEMaSTeR95
- w4J
- 22 Oct 2008
I agree with a comment below.
Nokia have S60
Samsung have S60
Motorola have Motomagx(Linux)
SE doesn't have one, same with LG but LG came with overload of feature.
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- Gear
- u1v
- 22 Oct 2008
UIQ had face of symbian but with touch as all Se cells had, but Nokia sales bought down UIQ than SE disappointing sales. Yet to grasp that SE with Symbian firmware reverse gear.
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- Anonymous
- w4J
- 22 Oct 2008
I think today SE are lacking of smart phone devices.
WM isn't count, it is PDA that doesn't have extra camera and music features.
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- sale987
- p@$
- 22 Oct 2008
I think thats a good news. Sony go on.