UIQ Technology announces the UIQ 3.3

UIQ Technology today announced the availability of UIQ 3.3, bringing mobile phone manufacturers even more opportunities to innovate and to diversify their product portfolios.

UIQ 3.3 based on Symbian OS v 9.3 builds on the success of the UIQ 3 family, making it possible for mobile phone manufacturers to produce different kinds of phones on the same software platform, on a single code line. UIQ 3.3 includes incremental enhancements in line with market requirements, including enhanced support for operator services and extensive customization for addressing different market segments.

Continue reading Comments (0) 27.03.2008. 15:29

Opera Mobile giving up of Yahoo - Google is now the default search engine

We all know Google. It's the biggest and the best known search engine, it was establish in 1998 and most internet users are relying on Google when they need find something from the internet. These days many web browser has a search bar and like FireFox and Safari the default search engine is Google. Nevertheless, Opera's famous mobile phone browser has been using Yahoo as the default search engine but things are going to change. Now google is the default search engine of Opera Mobile and Opera Mini. Although, Opera has been using Google with their desktop browser, so this move is quite logical.

Continue reading Comments (2) 28.02.2008. 15:38

DreamLife for UIQ 3 Released

DreamSpring has recently released the "Intuitive Activity Manager" DreamSpring for Symbian UIQ 3 smartphones. DreamSpring includes activity manager with full calendar and powerful contacts management capabilities.

DreamLife offers two applications in one. It fully integrates the award-winning contact manager DreamConnect 3 to provide powerful contact management capabilities from within an easy to use calendar, replacing the most used Contacts and Calendar applications on UIQ smartphones.

DreamLife is the only application on the platform to provide a visual representation of activities for easy viewing and planning. Its vibrant and rich week view allows users to view todo's, appointments, events, categories and status at one glance.

Continue reading Comments (0) 25.02.2008. 17:50

YouTube Mobile client (beta) for mobile phones

YouTube mobile has been available for awhile already but now YouTube has announced a YouTube client for mobile phones. Using the YouTube Mobile client you can access millions of YouTube videos at any time right from your mobile phone. The client isn't only for watching videos you can also upload videos directly from your mobile phone.

Unfortunately this application is only available for Nokia's N73, N95, E65, 6110, 6120 and Sony Ericsson k800 and w880.

Get the YouTube Mobile client (beta)

Comments (0) 27.01.2008. 12:10

Sony Ericsson and F-Secure to deliver mobile security for UIQ

I've been using UIQ 3 smartphone for a year and I have had no viruses on my M600i. In my opinion, there's no need for antivirus software on mobile phones but Sony Ericsson and F-Secure seems to disagree. They have just announced a partnership agreement to deliver mobile security for UIQ. F-Secure will bring the F-Secure Mobile Security 3.3 for UIQ, it includes an integrated antivirus and firewall. The software will be available in selected Sony Ericsson UIQ devices.

Press release:

F-Secure Corporation, the global leader in providing security as a service through mobile operators and Internet Service Providers, is today announcing the availability of its Mobile Security product for the UIQ platform. F-Secure and Sony Ericsson are partnering on supplying mobile security to Sony Ericsson’s smartphones.

A trial version of the F-Secure Mobile Security(TM) 3.3 for UIQ will be available in selected Sony Ericsson UIQ devices. The companies will co-operate closely together in the area of mobile security to make sure that smartphones will continue to offer a safe and rich mobile computing experience.

Continue reading Comments (0) 26.01.2008. 19:23

Free playlist creator for UIQ 3

I found this great tool from My-Symbian and it's made by malbry. jPlaylist is a small (3K) Java application and it runs on Windows XP and Vista. Basically, all it does is that jPlaylist creates a playlist of all music files in directory. It's very easy to use and you can get it for free here.

Once set up, you can right-click on any music file on your PC and it will create a playlist of all the music files in that directory. The playlist contains entries of the form:

D:Music(album name)(track name).(suffix)

which are required for UIQ3 phones. Alternatively, you can right-click on a playlist produced by your favourite CD ripping program, and jPlaylist will convert the playlist contents to the format above.

jPlaylist 1.01 creates/edits both ansi and unicode encoded playlists.

Comments (0) 05.01.2008. 18:35

Sony Ericsson P1i running the W960i's firmware

Here it is! Now you can have the Sony Ericsson P1i with the W960i's Walkman firmware. It was just a matter of time when this would happened, because people did this with the M600i and W950i also. User vagas22 also posted a video at YouTube (read more to see the video) and looks like the Walkman firmware seems to run quite nicely on the P1i.

Unfortunately there's no instructions available in English yet. I found this video and photo from the uiqmania.cz. I'm sure someone will soon post proper instructions in English too.

btw. Happy New Year!

Continue reading Comments (3) 31.12.2007. 10:45

mBrain Software releases Pdf+ 1.75 for UIQ 3 smartphones

Pdf+ is a PDF document reader software for UIQ 3 smartphones (M600i, W950i, W960i, P1i, P990i). mBrain's pdf+ is optimized for mobile phones and because of that, it's very easy to use, fast, small and packs a lot of features.

Now mBrain has released version 1.75 of its popular PDF reading software. Pdf+ (for UIQ 3.x smartphones) is available in two editions, Pdf+ Basic and Pdf+ Standard.

Pdf+ Basic offers basic functionality. Users can view all pages, go to any page, search for strings, set the zoom level, full screen and landscape mode and reflow the text. Chinese and Japanese PDF files are fully supported. Email attachments and PDF files downloaded from the Web can be read as well.

Continue reading Comments (0) 25.12.2007. 16:52

New Linux version of Themes Creator tool

Let's say hello to all Linux users! Sony Ericsson's popular Themes Creator tool is now available as a Linux version in both English and Chinese, adding to the existing Windows and OS X versions.

The Themes Creator tool allows you to take full advantage of the powerful customization and personalization features of Sony Ericsson phones to create unique new themes to match various consumer styles. The tool is a "composer" that allows you to create a theme based on existing components such as sound files, image files or animations. It also allows you to change display colors for menu text and clock display.

Continue reading 29.11.2007. 19:20

iNES - NES/Famico emulator for UIQ 3 phones

Wohoo! Here's some great news for those who owns UIQ 3 smartphone. Now you are able to enjoy all the great NES games, such as Mega Man, Super Mario and Zelda on your phone by using iNES emulator. Unfortunately iNES has been tested only on the Motorola Z8, so it might not work with Sony Ericsson's UIQ 3 based smartphones, but don't worry! I'm sure if the emulator doen't work, there will be a new version out soon, which will add the support for Sony Ericsson's UIQ 3 smartphones. iNES will run Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) and Famicom cartridge files with .nes and .nes.gz extensions.

iNES has many cool features, such as saving gameplay at any moment and Recording music into ringtones. iNES also supports network playing and it has On-screen keyboard for single or multiple key input.

You can get free trial or buy the full version only for $14.99

19.11.2007. 12:52