OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/20734/UIQ_Files_for_Bankruptcy Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:19:22 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com SE going Windows http://osnews.com/thread?342517 http://osnews.com/thread?342517 Sony Ericsson is going Windows?

I guess I'll be looking for a different smartphone vendor when my P990 dies. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:06:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Macrat) Comments Now only S60 is still alive http://osnews.com/thread?342564 http://osnews.com/thread?342564 From a developer point of view this was to be expected.

Symbian based OS, UIQ and S60 are a pain to program for. The C++ dialect they required developers to use is so early 90s that your people being paid good money will endure programming for them.

Now comparing with the choice companies are having with more sane OS, it is understandable that something like this would happen.

This is also a reason why Nokia decided to go open source with S60. As a way to attract developers to their platform. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:27:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (moondevil) Comments www.uiq.com http://osnews.com/thread?342574 http://osnews.com/thread?342574 Something is about to surface from the labs...

hmm... yes, bankruptcy! Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:38:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Melicerte) Comments RE: SE going Windows http://osnews.com/thread?342581 http://osnews.com/thread?342581 It seems that they are, but they're also doing other things, so there might be android phones coming out of SE as well:

http://androidcommunity.com/sony-ericsson-android-by-summer-2009-20... Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:11:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (japh) Comments RE: SE going Windows http://osnews.com/thread?342582 http://osnews.com/thread?342582
Sony Ericsson is going Windows?

I guess I'll be looking for a different smartphone vendor when my P990 dies.


As so you are using a P990? I was in on making that device:) But don't blame me for any of the bugs ;)

You should be able to pick up a pretty cheap second hand P1i by now, which is a far better device than the P990 ever was, while you wait for the dust to settle. And if you don't live in Sweden you could always pick up an iPhone and give it a go. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:12:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (John.Gustafsson) Comments A sad day http://osnews.com/thread?342631 http://osnews.com/thread?342631 I'm a happy P1i owner and actually hoped to use it for a long time. That is, until the P2i or whatever they would call it, was released.

So, is this another platform Microsoft won? Is there any viable Symbian interface in the pipeline? I tried S60, but didnt really like it that much.

Perhaps I should buy myself a spare P1i on eBay. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:05:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (boblowski) Comments