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Having seen the Samsung Soul, XPERIA X1, G900's updated UIQ, C902, N96's S60 3.2, ASUS ZX1. all those phones have a very capable and cool looking User interface much more intriguing when we talk about their fancy animations in the interface. does this mean 2008 will be also a user interface war?
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Posted: 2008-03-07 08:36:25
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don't want to spoil your fun, but android os will win
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Posted: 2008-03-07 13:11:59
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Isn't android, just the core system though? basically any UI could be implemented on top of that.
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Posted: 2008-03-07 14:41:03
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I think only samsung and SE are fighting over this at the moment. Samsung with their U900, F480. And SE with their Gxxx and XPERIA
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Posted: 2008-03-07 16:36:25
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the way i see it, there has always been war on any electronic products. windows vs. mac os, S60 vs. WM vs UIQ, blu ray vs. HDDVD. MS vs(other memory cards). there would always be that war unless there would be monopoly in a certain area.
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Posted: 2008-03-07 16:46:26
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On 2008-03-07 14:41:03, whentheleveebreaks wrote:
Isn't android, just the core system though? basically any UI could be implemented on top of that.
Indeed, that's correct.
However, we haven't seen nothing yet
UIQ will soon be much updated, and I guess S60 would be as well at some point.
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Posted: 2008-03-07 16:47:09
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@Razec
You left out S60 Touch UI.
@all
I actually think you are right but i think this has more to do with the change we are seeing in smart phone ownership. Whilst once smart phones where the preserve of the Buisness user or techno geek smart phones have gone more mainstream and Multimedia smart phones are going to be the biggest sellers and largest market IMO.
Really this is due to few things that have changed the first being the rise in availability of fixed price data plans meaning using large amounts of data is possible at a reasonable cost, add to this the greatly improved data speeds that allow the user to get rich content on thier device and fast, and lastly the great improvements in both processors, graphics and the actual screens themselves all leading to a better quality user experience.
All the above mean the end user can get virtually anything he does on his main PC whilst mobile all these new UI's have far greater use and implications for the Multimedia user. Especially when you look at the rise of Social Networking and IM, even Blackberry have diversified into covering Multimedia as well as just Buisness apps.
If you think of it what a Buisness user really needs is E-Mail usually of the push variety and good document viewers and editors, some business's ban any device with a Camera. While it may be nice to have a good Music and Video player they can hardly be considered killer apps or must haves on a business device. Eye candy is not really that important to a business user functionallity and reliability is.
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Posted: 2008-03-07 16:58:34
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I am bias, but as an interface i haven't used one better than that on the iPhone
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Posted: 2008-03-07 17:06:32
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@marc
while good GUI or "eye candy" as you may call it may not be that important, it's still a nice touch and one may feel a phone's "personality". in one way or another, it may be relaxing to a user considering business users are mostly stressed out, and they deserve something good to look at.
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Posted: 2008-03-07 17:20:48
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On 2008-03-07 16:36:25, QVGA wrote:
I think only samsung and SE are fighting over this at the moment. Samsung with their U900, F480. And SE with their Gxxx and XPERIA
We'll you're greatly mistaken there. the SE UI is nothing but a tiny app, something like your HTC cube. Nothing specatcular or ground breaking like the iPhone UI. IN reality the Asus UI is far more impressive than SE's panels.
The G900 again, is very cosmetic, not far reaching into the user interface. So its ruled out as well.
What will be interesting to look at will be:
1. Google Android(check out the latest SDK to feel the UI, it'll be far more advanced when it launches for sure)
2. S60 Touch
3. WIndows Mobile 7(early 2009)
4. Apples new 3G iPhone, they might change some things there.
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Posted: 2008-03-07 17:29:17
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