So, What Happens To Symbian UIQ Now?
Everyone is happy about Sony Ericsson’s latest announcement, the wannabe iPhone killer XPERIA X1. And, while I like to see an interesting new phone (even though it’s built on the Windows Mobile platform, which - and I’m speaking from experience here - is an awful platform compared to Symbian, and will probably fare even worse compared to iPhone and its upcoming SDK as well as Android), I’m not particularly happy about it.
That’s because I own Sony Ericsson P1i, a Symbian UIQ3 phone. Since Sony Ericsson is basically the only significant backer of this platform (Nokia uses Symbian S60 or S80 for their smartphones), and they’re obviously switching to Windows Mobile since XPERIA X1 is only the first in a series of smartphones, I reckon that the UIQ3 platform is doomed to die a lonely death. Not that good for owners of UIQ2 or UIQ3 based phones, is it?
Well, perhaps it’s for the best. I’m a gadget fanatic and I do change them often; I’m buying an iPhone right now and will probably own an Android-based phone in a year’s time anyway. My P1i has served me well; it will probably continue to do so for another year or so.
However, this is one of those cases where you feel cheated. You buy a high-end smartphone, and expect good support and a lot of applications to play with, and you get shafted. From this perspective, Android’s openness and support from many strong backers sound really good, and I have more and more reasons to believe that it’s going to be the mobile platform of the future.
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