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Putting new uiq on the new symbian phones and adding basic features might attract more users. Turning uiq to s60? We'll go nokia...
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Posted: 2008-09-30 13:58:00
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Well yeah, if decide to put s60, we are all nokia as tranced said... Anyway I wouldn't buy device which os is dead. I may buy if the device is really good . Another option, I would switch to WM.
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Posted: 2008-09-30 14:04:23
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Less choice = bad for consumer.


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Posted: 2008-09-30 17:52:12
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I really don't see how you can read that into the article - the news on UIQ has been clear for some months, it's dead, the developers have been sacked, the company itself is all but wound up. There may be more SE Symbian phones in the future but they won't come soon, and they won't be UIQ, they'll be whatever the new unified (S60 based) Symbian comes out with in a year or two.

As someone else said, who'd rush out and buy an expensive smartphone based on a dead OS? They might just re-use it again in some mid to low end device (like the G series), but that's your lot. High end SE smartphones will be WM or perhaps Android from now on.

[ This Message was edited by: Boinng on 2008-09-30 17:04 ]
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Posted: 2008-09-30 18:01:49
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Well it's OK then if they are WM or android, but not S60 based... That would produce Sony Ericssonokia then...
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Posted: 2008-09-30 18:07:57
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with s60 you'll only get omap3 as their top performance platform, with WM, we have intel, nvidia, ati, marvell, qualcomm (the 1ghz snapdragon) samsung and omap3 too. android may als0 use the following platform as its similar to WM(android is linux based anyway)so WM is better option for SE imo.http://www.esato.com/board/viewtopic.php?topic=157628&start=0] here[/url]

[ This Message was edited by: razec on 2008-09-30 18:03 ]
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Posted: 2008-09-30 18:56:52
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Agree with you... WM is far better than S60 when it comes to hardware components. But what about software... Are there plenty apps for WM and are the older WM apps compatible with the never WM versions? Or they are like UIQ2 and UIQ3???
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Posted: 2008-09-30 19:01:46
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WM has far more library of apps than s60. add to that the fact that they were also backwards compatible. max and boing could answer you better
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Posted: 2008-09-30 19:12:45
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No need to torture max to explain me. I understand now. Then 's future is the WM definately. That's what I think.
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Posted: 2008-09-30 19:17:38
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Having been a Symbian/UIQ user since P800, due to recent developments (or rather lack of) I got myself an HTC Tytn II. I still find WM not entirely suitable for the mobile platform but the platform more than makes up for all its deficiencies with the huge number of software available for it. The end result is that for most things it is much easier to get things done on WM than on UIQ3 with its limited sw and almost non-existent support.
Perhaps when I have more time I will try to write a review comparing WM and UIQ3 in detail but here are the main items in a nutshell:
- Comparing the P1 (208 MHz) and Tytn II (400 MHz) the speed felt by the user is about the same.
- P1 has a much better battery life
- P1 contacts database structure is actually better than Outlook. In the latter there is no way to have more than 1 mobile number assigned to a contact. Although there are a couple of sw solutions available on WM to tackle this problem.
- WM devices are usually larger.
- I have never had a system restart on WM, so the OS is definitely more stable than UIQ3.
- Customizing a WM device is very easy, you can even change the whole OS in about 10 minutes (eg. install WM 6.1 instead of WM 6.0 or install Android)
- Office applications are native to WM and work perfectly with IE and messaging applications.

I'm still using my P1 because of the FM radio and smaller size but if I ever decide to get another SE in the future, it has to have very good features not available elsewhere.
It will be interesting to see what SE will do to try to regain their advantage that they had for the past 5-6 years with the touch screen+UIQ combination
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Posted: 2008-10-02 14:57:32
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