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Tuesday, November 07, 2006
Sony Ericsson acquires UIQ
Update: Now with information for English-speaking:
Sony Ericsson to acquire UIQ Technology AB, 07 November 2006 - Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications: About Us - Press Room - Press release - Sony Ericsson
Sony Ericsson pwns UIQ (literally) - Engadget Mobile
Sony Ericsson To Buy UIQ from Symbian - Yahoo! News
UIQ Technology: UIQ News 2006
The Swedish magazine DI has news about this acquisition. It's all in Swedish, so I'll explain.
Sony Ericsson acquires UIQ, securing that Sony Ericsson will have full control over the UIQ platform's fate.
UIQ provides a UI and applications on top of Symbian OS. It's used by Sony Ericsson in the P and M series phones. Nokia's similar solution called Series 60 is much more popular than UIQ, yet the jury is out on whether UIQ or Series 60 is better. UIQ supports touch screens and handwriting recognition, which Series 60 doesn't.
This deal makes a lot of sense for Sony Ericsson: It was probably not an expensive acquisition, and they anyway need to move to a more powerful platform also for mainstream phones, with or without touch screen. I therefor expect the next version of UIQ will fully support phones without touch screen.
Nokia has made at least one phone with UIQ for the China market, where handwriting is very important, but I don't think Nokia will go anywhere close to UIQ from now on.
di.se
Sony Ericsson to acquire UIQ Technology AB, 07 November 2006 - Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications: About Us - Press Room - Press release - Sony Ericsson
Sony Ericsson pwns UIQ (literally) - Engadget Mobile
Sony Ericsson To Buy UIQ from Symbian - Yahoo! News
UIQ Technology: UIQ News 2006
The Swedish magazine DI has news about this acquisition. It's all in Swedish, so I'll explain.
Sony Ericsson acquires UIQ, securing that Sony Ericsson will have full control over the UIQ platform's fate.
UIQ provides a UI and applications on top of Symbian OS. It's used by Sony Ericsson in the P and M series phones. Nokia's similar solution called Series 60 is much more popular than UIQ, yet the jury is out on whether UIQ or Series 60 is better. UIQ supports touch screens and handwriting recognition, which Series 60 doesn't.
This deal makes a lot of sense for Sony Ericsson: It was probably not an expensive acquisition, and they anyway need to move to a more powerful platform also for mainstream phones, with or without touch screen. I therefor expect the next version of UIQ will fully support phones without touch screen.
Nokia has made at least one phone with UIQ for the China market, where handwriting is very important, but I don't think Nokia will go anywhere close to UIQ from now on.
di.se
