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UIQ’s CEO Johan Sandberg told Reuters in a recent interview that the company has filed for bankruptcy. UIQ was jointly owned by Sony Ericsson and Motorola, and supplied a version of Symbian to some mobile handsets. UIQ’s bankruptcy comes partly as a result of Nokia’s purchase of Symbian, formed the Symbian Foundation and said it would begin producing a royalty-free Symbian platform. CEO Johan Sandber said the owners will not provide any more financial support. He also added that there were no opportunities to create a new line of business in the current financial climate.

Sony Ericsson had said in November that it would continue to fund UIQ while it considered the options for the future of the firm. However, it seems that the handset maker has decided its pointless to continue funding UIQ. UIQ still had 200 employees as of last month.

Via: Esato & Sydostran

Filed under: News, UIQ

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UIQ’s entire 270 staff have been put on notice of dismissal. With both Sony Ericsson and Motorola no longer using UIQ in their products the company’s future is dubious. Sony Ericsson has agreed to fund the company on a monthly basis to allow UIQ to explore its options, in other words until someone buys the company or the staff can be found other jobs. The staff themselves are a valuable asset given their experience.

All About Symbian reports that both Sony Ericsson and Motorola has dropped a number of UIQ handsets planned for launch.

Source: All About Symbian

Filed under: UIQ

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Yes…you’ve read it correctly The wait is over! Opera mobile 9.5b (beta) is now available for Symbian UIQ3 phones.

Known Issues

• ActiveX is disabled - Flash plugins and embedded video streaming do not work.
• Custom software keyboards (IME) will be buggy at best, not working at worst.
• No multilingual build - Only English is supported. Problems with other languages (and input methods) are not unexpected.
• Installation on memory cards may cause problems.
• Text wraps in overview mode.
• Main testing has been done on English HTC devices (Touch Diamond, Touch Pro, Touch, Touch Dual, Touch Cruise, TyTN and Wizard) and Samsung i900.
• Landscape mode does not take keyboard position into consideration.
• Devices with low memory might get Out Of Memory (OOM) messages.
• Opera is always running when the Widgets Manager is running.
• On devices with hight DPI some of the pre-installed widgets look small.
• When an URL is opened from a widget, there will be an extra browser window opened in the background that’s not working properly.

You can download it from HERE

Happy Browsing!

Filed under: UIQ, Web

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One of the most awaited program updates is out: MyPhoneExplorer 1.7.

The changes at a glance:

• full compatibility to UIQ3-Phones (P990i, P1i, M600i, W950i, W960i, G700, G900)
• read/write access to notes on the phone
• SMS-Chatfeature
• universal filesync with filteroptions
• its now possible to add exceptions in ruled events
• its possible to create a backup also if the phone is not connected (Offlinebackup)
• besides this there were alot of other changes and bugfixes which do not have enought space here

Get it at fjsoft.at!

Via UIQblog.

Filed under: Application, Symbian, UIQ

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Now that both have been cancelled after a long development period, we thought it wouldn’t hurt anybody to shed a bit of light on these phones.

Paris was going to be Sony Ericsson’s first slider in the P-series line-up. While it was partly based on old hardware, Sony Ericsson had made several software enhancements that would significantly speed up the phone. In addition to this, the Paris would have been based on UIQ 3.3. Anyway, what I wanted to show in this blog post was that Sony Ericsson realized that the business segment no longer has to be connected to boring colour schemes. It can be black and grey while still looking like a million bucks! I’ve known about the three colour variants for Paris (black/blue, silver/red, and black/orange) in about two months now, and this was one of the things that I liked about it - they’re trying to break the habit of “one colour variant” business & enterprise phones. Let’s hope they’ll keep it up in upcoming S60-based business phones. Continue reading “Taking a look back at Paris (and a bit on Beibei)”

Filed under: Exclusive, G series, P series, Prototype, Rants, UIQ

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