Gizmodo: uiq

SlingPlayer TV-on-Cellphone Coming For Symbian UIQ This Summer

Jason Chen — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:20:00 EDT

Just as Sling announced a few weeks ago, their Slingplayer cellphone player is getting added support for Symbian UIQ devices this summer. Among the sets being supported are the Sony Ericsson P1i, P990i, W960i, W950i and M600i, along with Moto's MOTORIZR Z8. You'll be able to see it in person at CTIA coming up next week, but won't be able to stream episodes of Lost on it until summer—but by then the TV season would already be over. [Slingplayer]

Spy Shots of Streamlined New UIQ Interface

Sean Fallon — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:10:30 EDT

Other than these quick and dirty snapshots smuggled out a presentation somewhere, not much is known about the new UIQ interface. Although, many Sony Ericsson users will undoubtedly be excited about getting a closer look at what appears to be a much improved touch-based UI. Additional photo after the jump.

[Gearfuse]

Sony Ericsson and Motorola Plan Superfriends of Smartphone Platform Development

Matt Buchanan — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:10:46 EDT

Sony Ericsson's selling half of its UIQ smartphone software unit to Motorola, which will be run independently of both companies (it's "not a joint venture") with the goal of "creating a platform which can be shared by a number of operators." In particular, they want to eventually knock Nokia's Symbian-based S60 off the top of the smartphone platform list.

To that end, they're looking to bring in another company at some point in the future, though for now the board'll be evenly composed of Moto and SE people. The deal itself sounds kind of messy, so let's hope the platform they put out is decidedly less so. [Reuters]

Sony Ericsson's M600i Phone Announced

Gizloco — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 07:14:22 EST

Sony Ericsson has just announced the M600i, the second UIQ3-powered phone from the joint venture. The M600i sports 240x320 touchscreen, 80MB of memory and UMTS GSM 900/1800/1900 capability. (Which means, should we get this particular model in the US, it will be with Cingular.)

As expected, the phone is pretty small (it weighs only 3.9 oz.) and can interface with corporate email servers such as Exchange. A well-appointed media player is standard, as is stereo Bluetooth support. The only things you will probably miss are Wi-Fi and a camera, although European smartphones tend to launch without Wi-Fi about as frequently as ours do here.

With a "dual function keyboard" not unlike the 7100-series Blackberry phones but also a touch-screen, there should be plenty of ways to get your information into this smartphone—assuming you like the UIQ3 environment.

Sony Ericsson Announce M600i UIQ Smartphone [All About Symbian]