Well, SonyEricsson wasn't that enthusiastic about UIQ recently when it announced that UIQ failed to meet expectations. Recently motorola - the other major backer of UIQ, called it a day for UIQ when it announced that it was stopping development on UIQ and MOTOMAGX (their linux based OS).


I have to say that I still love my P800 and I won't be giving it up any time soon. It's going to my personal gadget museum (along with my Newton). I also have to say that that it wasn't UIQ that failed to meet expectations, but rather SonyEricsson and Motorola. They never put their full weight behind the platform to support it so as a consequence:

1. Not enough phones running UIQ (compared to Nokia's S60)

2. Some phones were problematic and said companies never fixed them creating a problem in the brand image and customer loyalty

3. No binary compatibility with other Symbian platforms! This seems like a no brainer, especially since S60 apps were plentiful!

4. The phones that came our were feature deprived: one glaring example is the complete lack of quadband GSM and US 3G bands! by omitting such a large market SE kept the UIQ out of the hands of willing users.

Oh well, UIQ - another footnote in tech history. Long live Symbian!