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Ok just had a look at the showroom link Blerk posted, and I'm aware UIQ are stated that these are some prototype ideas...but WOW!!!
I'm impressed by those touch functions, seriously they look amazing and if they can be rendered like that in real life you have a system which is easily on par with the iPhone in my opinion.
But what I can't understand is what phone will be sporting those features? Because they look really good and now with SE out of the picture and Moto left using UIQ...what happens to those prototype ideas.
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Posted: 2008-10-26 15:02:31
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I was with SE for 9 years, my last phone being an M600… I thought it was the best phone for me, and just waited for a major improvement with another phone. Didn’t like the P1i and waited and waited… X1 is taking so much time to come out, and in the end I bough E71…
Guys, I am amazed with what Nokia can do… I don’t think I will go back to SE…
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Posted: 2008-10-26 17:04:10
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On 2008-10-26 11:24:20, blerk wrote:
Its a pity that many nice models never see the daylight in a shop. Cancelled phones with some potential:
- M610i
- G702/BeiBei
- Paris
I wonder what is the pipeline now, if anything it probably won't be bases on UIQ any more, maybe WM and Android on SE phones, what a pity!
Look here:
http://www.uiq.com/product/showroom/
The have some sweetness left in the candy shop and SE won't be giving it to us anymore
[ This Message was edited by: blerk on 2008-10-26 11:02 ]
Wow those are some very nice looking menus....but no offense, it looks like the iphone interface improved.
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Posted: 2008-10-26 18:27:23
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why is that a bad thing? Looking like an iphone menu isn't a bad thing especially if the software can not only look that great but be good to use and powerful enough for the consumers to complete the tasks they want?
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Posted: 2008-10-26 19:16:47
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So G702 will never be released?
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Posted: 2008-10-26 19:22:26
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Nope.
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Posted: 2008-10-26 19:39:59
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Sorry Max, you reveal complete ignorance about UIQ in every post you make.
"UIQ 3.3 is not stable" says it all. UIQ 3.0 is right now a mature and stable platform. UIQ 3.3 is a evolution, and acording to people that tried the prototypes of Paris and Beibei, is as stable as its predecessor.
Again. SE could perfectly use better hardware on Paris on Beibei. The decision of sticking with the old processor was completely stupid, and they and they had other prototypes running UIQ 3.3 with the new processors.
They abandone UIQ because they (and Moto) did not do enough in the decisive times. Few models, delays, lack of promotion, lack of user support, lack of hardware evolution when they could do it, etc...they went into a dead end.
[ This Message was edited by: ares on 2008-10-26 22:53 ]
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Posted: 2008-10-26 23:49:45
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On 2008-10-26 23:49:45, ares wrote:
Sorry Max, you reveal complete ignorance about UIQ in every post you make.
"UIQ 3.3 is not stable" says it all. UIQ 3.0 is right now a mature and stable platform. UIQ 3.3 is a evolution, and acording to people that tried the prototypes of Paris and Beibei, is as stable as its predecessor.
Again. SE could perfectly use better hardware on Paris on Beibei. The decision of sticking with the old processor was completely stupid, and they and they had other prototypes running UIQ 3.3 with the new processors.
They abandone UIQ because they (and Moto) did not do enough in the decisive times. Few models, delays, lack of promotion, lack of user support, lack of hardware evolution when they could do it, etc...they went into a dead end.
[ This Message was edited by: ares on 2008-10-26 22:53 ]
If the devices were stable then the processor was fast enough surely? How can you say the hardware is the problem, then on the other hand say that the phones were running fine?
Make up your mind. I'm not professing to be a know it all, I'm just speculating. You on the other hand think you know it all, yet still can't offer any logical explanation of why SE pulled UIQ. You are cranky with SE and just want to blame them for being uncaring of customers. If that's your trip fine.
Personally I can't see that they would NOT ENSURE THE SUCCES of UIQ JUST TO PISS PEOPLE OFF.
Obviously there is more to the issue than just not throwing better hardware at it.
But believe what you want to I don't care. Myself, I believe that if UIQ3.3 had no problems and all they needed to do was put in a faster processor, then they would have done so. Either the hardware required to run UIQ3.3 adequately is far too expensive to justify rolling out UIQ3.3, or UIQ3.3 is not stable yet (not necessarily that it crashes, but some aspect they could not get to work reliably).
Either way SE had a business imperative for not rolling out the new handsets. They certainly wouldn't not bring the handsets out without very good reason.
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Posted: 2008-10-27 01:40:18
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On 2008-10-26 23:49:45, ares wrote:
lack of user support
[ This Message was edited by: ares on 2008-10-26 22:53 ]
now why do you think that is?
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Posted: 2008-10-27 07:29:18
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On 2008-10-27 01:40:18, max_wedge wrote:
If the devices were stable then the processor was fast enough surely? How can you say the hardware is the problem, then on the other hand say that the phones were running fine?
Stability and speed are two completely different things. My P1 could do with a faster processor. Opening the messaging app is slow in particular. But i'd say it's stable - I very rarely need to reboot it or have it crash on me.
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Posted: 2008-10-27 08:04:15
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