A screenshot of the UIQ one-handed interface

A screenshot of the UIQ 3 pen-based interface

UIQ (formerly known as User Interface Quartz) by UIQ Technology is a software platform based upon Symbian OS. Essentially this is a graphical user interface layer that provides additional components to the core OS, to enable the development of feature-rich mobile phones that are open to expanded capabilities through third-party applications. Uiq user interface for symbian os version 3 File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links UIQ3_Pen_Style_with_default_theme. ... UIQ Technology develops and licenses an open software platform to the worlds leading mobile phone manufacturers and supports licensees in the drive towards developing a mass market for open mobile phones. ... Symbian OS is an operating system, designed for mobile devices, with associated libraries, user interface frameworks and reference implementations of common tools, produced by Symbian Ltd. ... This article or section needs a complete rewrite for the reasons listed on the talk page. ...

Native applications can be written in C++ using the Symbian/UIQ SDK. All UIQ-based phones (2.x and 3) also support Java applications. The term native mode is used in computing as follows. ... C++ (generally pronounced /si plÊŒs plÊŒs/) is a general-purpose, high-level programming language with low-level facilities. ... A software development kit (SDK or devkit) is typically a set of development tools that allows a software engineer to create applications for a certain software package, software framework, hardware platform, computer system, video game console, operating system or similar. ... Java is an object-oriented programming language developed by James Gosling and colleagues at Sun Microsystems in the early 1990s. ...

Version 2.0 and 2.1 are pen-based and used in the following 2.5G and 3G smartphones: Nokia 6708, Motorola A920/A925/A1000/M1000, Sony Ericsson P800/P900/P910, BenQ P30/P31 and Arima U300/U308. 2. ... 3G (or 3-G) is short for third-generation technology. ... A smartphone is any electronic handheld device that integrates the functionality of a mobile phone, personal digital assistant (PDA) or other information appliance. ... Nokia Corporation (NYSE: NOK) is the worlds largest manufacturer of mobile telephones (as of June 2006), with a global market share of approximately 34% in Q2 of 2006[1]. It produces mobile phones for every major market and protocol, including GSM, CDMA, and W-CDMA (UMTS). ... Motorola (NYSE: MOT) is an American international communications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois, a Chicago suburb. ... Motorola A925 Motorola A925 is a 3G smartphone from Motorola using Symbian OS. Among the most notable features is its built-in A-GPS. The A925 was preceded by the featurewise essentially identical Motorola A920, and was succeeded by the Motorola A1000. ... The Motorola A1000 is a 3G smartphone from Motorola using the UIQ platform based upon Symbian OS. One of the most notable features is its built-in A-GPS. The A1000 is the successor to the A925. ... The Motorola A1000 is a 3G smartphone from Motorola using the UIQ platform based upon Symbian OS. One of the most notable features is its built-in A-GPS. The A1000 is the successor to the A925. ... Sony Ericsson is a joint venture established in 2001 by the Japanese consumer electronics company Sony Corporation and the Swedish telecommunications company Ericsson to make mobile phones. ... The Sony Ericsson P800 is a smartphone based upon UIQ version 2. ... The Sony Ericsson P900 is a Symbian OS v7. ... The Sony Ericsson P910 is the Sony Ericsson P990 smartphones predecessor, and Sony Ericsson P900 successor. ... BenQ Corporation (IPA: ; Chinese: ) is a Taiwan-based company specializing in the manufacturing of computing, communications, and consumer electronics devices. ... BenQ P30 The BenQ P30 is a 2. ...

UIQ phones employ touch screens with a resolution of 208×320 pixels (UIQ 1.x & 2.x) and 240×320 (UIQ 3.x). Depending on the phone, the color depth is 12-bit (4096 colors), 16-bit (65536 colors), or 18-bit (262144 colors) on some newer phones. Color depth is a computer graphics term describing the number of bits used to represent the color of a single pixel in a bitmapped image or video frame buffer. ...

UIQ 3 is the latest version of the platform and, in addition to the pen-based UI, will also support one handed operation and a number of significant enhancements.

For developers the significant items are:

• Single SDK model - developers targeting core UIQ features can use the UIQ SDK to target any UIQ 3 device. Extensions targeting specific device features (such as WiFi, etc) are available from phone manufacturers websites.
• Increased tools support - developers can use whichever tools they are familiar with (DevStudio, Eclipse, Carbide, CodeWarrior, NetBeans). Many of these tools are beginning to support extensive RAD features for both C++ and Java developers.
• High volume, mid-range devices are now possible, to significantly increase the potential customer base.

The first phones with the pen-based UIQ 3 will be Sony Ericsson's P990, M600 and the Walkman-branded W950. The French 1999 eclipse An eclipse (Greek verb: ekleipô, to vanish, though it derives from the prefix ex-, away from, and Greek leipein, to leave) is an astronomical event that occurs when one celestial object moves into the shadow of another. ... Carbide In chemistry, Carbide confusingly refers to three different things: 1. ... CodeWarrior is an integrated development environment for the Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and embedded systems. ... NetBeans refers to both a platform for the development of Java desktop applications, and an integrated development environment (IDE) developed using the NetBeans Platform. ... Look up Rad in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Sony Ericsson is a joint venture established in 2001 by the Japanese consumer electronics company Sony Corporation and the Swedish telecommunications company Ericsson to make mobile phones. ... Sony Ericsson P990 is a smartphone and the successor of Sony Ericsson P910. ... Sony Ericsson M600 is a Symbian based smartphone using the UIQ 3. ... Sony Walkman Official Logo (2000 - current) Various products of the Walkman line The Walkman is a popular Sony brand used by the company to market its portable audio players, and is synonymously used to refer to the original Walkman portable personal stereo player and as a generic term for similar... The Sony Ericsson W950 is the third UIQ 3 smartphone based on Symbian OS v9. ...

See also

• List of UIQ 3 Phones

The following is a list of the smartphones that have been announced as running the UIQ 3 platform. ...

External links

• UIQ Technology
• UIQ Developer Portal
• UIQ Blog @ i-Symbian.Com - A dedicated UIQ blog