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Welcome to the UIQ / Mediaphone section,
here you can find information relating to Symbian devices using
the UIQ interface (formerly the Mediaphone
DFRD, and before than Quartz). Currently there are no Symbian devices
using the UIQ interface. There are several prototpyes from Ericsson
and Sanyo (boh shown public). The UIQ interface is for pen based
PDA's and are similar in style to the Palm and PPC PDA's. The
include the functions of the most powerful PDA and include a built
in phone. There are suggestions that some will include built in
GPS too.
The UIQ interface is a UI for the
Symbian OS version 7.0. It was announced at the 3GSM conference
in Cannes in Februrary 2002. You can learn more about it here
(includes screenshots, and decription).
The following information is from the old mediaphone section: This
is now mainly out of date. The mediaphone reference has been replaced
by the UIQ interface. In the features
section we list known hardware prototypes and several articles introducing
Quartz and comprehensive
screenshots from the emulator (despite being from the Quartz
emulator they are almost identical to the UIQ interface). The software
pages list software already announced, and the support
section has FAQs and other question / answer related documents.
And of course you can chat about and ask about anything in the
All About ER6 Forums.
UIQ / Mediaphone Specific News Stories:
Now available via Forum Nokia are Chinese (traditional and others) versions of the 9200 Software Development Kit. The 7650 SDK has also been updated and there are other new and useful documents available. Thanks to Nt for the heads up. There are also some documents available in Ericsson Mobility world about the P800(thanks to MM for the heads up).
UIQ Technology has announced a Partner Program open to all organizations with a technology or strategic position that is key to the success of Symbian OS mobile phones based on UIQ, like the recently announced Sony Ericsson P800.
Metrowerks and Beatnik partner to enhance CodeWarrior toolset for Symbian OS. The partnership will provide standards-based audio engine for multimedia applications development in a range of wireless devices.
Firstly I want to apologise to all the regular visitors to the site for the lack of updates recently. I've been taking my second year exams at university and although they did finish a week ago I have since been letting my hair down and generally having a good time. But now I can saftely say normal updates can resume (it take a while to catch up though...)
Borland have announced the future availability of support for Symbian (specifically Series 60) in their development tools. As currently planned, the Borland C++ solution will enable developers to rapidly produce C++ applications that run on the Symbian OS. More tools can only be good as it will mean more developers.
Siemens have reaffirmed their commitment to Symbian by announcing a co-operation agreement with Nokia. Siemens will start by liscening Series 60 (as previously announced) and work on developing it and applications for it further.
Symbian.info are a Benelux Usergroup for Symbian based devices and they are holding a user meeting in Utrecht, The Netherlands. They are probably the best Symbian usergroup in the world, producing an excellent magasine (in Dutch sadly!), and being very freidnly. Although there are also plenty of English speakers (as well as Dutch and German).
At the recent Symbian Developer Expo lots of interesting announcements were made. You can read all about them over at the Symbian site or you can wait as they will be featured with some comments here over the next few weeks. The reasons behind this is so I can digest them and I dont swamp you with loads of news.
As the webmaster of this site I would like to apologise for the slowness of recent updates. I have been very busy in the real world, and will remain so for a little while longer. There will be no updates by me in the next week. I like to thank everyone for their supportive comments and I hope normal paced service will resume soon!
Not so much news, but interesting nontheless. There is a poll at http://linux.com for what is your primary OS, among the selection is symbian. Now as many of us have Symbian powered mobile phones (9210) it's safe to say that that is our primary OS. So pop by scroll down the page and give a vote to Symbian.
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