Digia @Web goes gold, UIQ gets serious browsing power
By Chris Ziegler 
posted Oct 8th 2008 7:03PM
posted Oct 8th 2008 7:03PM
As smartphone platforms go, UIQ is a pretty underserved one; it just doesn't command enough of a following (by either manufacturers or end users) to justify boatloads of serious third-party development. That's why we're especially delighted to see that Digia's @Web, a Webkit-based browser with touch control and desktop-grade rendering capabilities, has emerged from beta and gone live. The full version's not a free download -- you'll pay 8 (about $11) for the privilege, in fact -- but for diehard UIQers looking for a way to rock the interwebs, this is probably the ticket.
[Thanks, All About Symbian]
Sad because UIQ the User Interface (it is not an operating system) that ran the world's first 2G touch screen smartphones...
There was once a phone called the Sony Ericsson P800. It had a touch screen and a fold-up keypad. Quickly followed by the P900 and P910. The SE P Series were the first smartphones in the 2G era (Edge) and they were fantastic units. They ran UIQ. The UIQ2 in the P910 I had was far more stable than the WM 6.1 in my Tilt.
But SE got to the P910 successor - the P990 - and lost the plot. It was unstable and didn't have enough memory to take advantage of Symbian's advanced multi-threading capabilities (UIQ, like S60 is the interfaceover the Symbian OS. UIQ= User Interface Quartz).
Seems now as though UIQ, the pioneer of touch-screen smart phones will be left to the dust bin of history.
Fill version? :p
Richard is right, UIQ needs a second go-round, but I'll definitely be more likely to get a w960i with this out.