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Sony Ericsson completes acquisition of UIQ

3 February 2007 by axxxr




Sony Ericsson today completed the acquisition of the Swedish software company UIQ Technology AB from Symbian Ltd.

UIQ Technology, which uses Symbian OS, licenses the UIQ user interface and application development platform to mobile phone vendors worldwide.

Sony Ericsson is already a licensee of UIQ Technology, and has been working closely with the company on UIQ version 3.0, which is included in Sony Ericsson’s P990 smartphone, M600 messaging phone and W950 Walkman® phone.

UIQ Technology will operate as a separate business subsidiary of Sony Ericsson. UIQ on Symbian OS will continue to be openly available, licensed on equal terms to all its licensees.

Sony Ericsson intends to communicate its strategic vision for the development of UIQ Technology in the near future. www.uiq.com



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User comments:

CONGRATULATIONS SE !!!!
IT'S EXCELLENT STRATEGY 4 TO BE NO.1 IN THE WORLD !!!

nick on Feb 03 2007

WELL DONE !!! EXCELENT ! GO SE !!!




sergio1 on Feb 03 2007

Now lets see what their vision is for UIQ3 and future versions. Most importantly lets hope other board members of Symbian does NOT force implementation of new features of S60/UIQ3+ of licensee's to submit their advancements to Symbian for its own improvement.

Those that remember how Palm Inc. (when hardware & OS were BOTH 1 company)screwed over Sony will know exactly what I'm talking about.

> Here's to many innovations that give us the user more power & seemless integration of functionalities & great design.

Prom1 on Feb 04 2007

UIQ now should only be in Sony Ericsson phones . No license shud be givn to Moto or nokia or anyone

Anand on Feb 04 2007

NO DOUBT ESPECIALY SONYERICSSON HAS DITURB THE MARKET OF NOKIA & SAMSUNG IN PAKISTAN,BECAUSE OF ECOMICALLY GOOD RATES,GOOD CAMERA RESULTS, WIDE SCREEN, RINGTONES & GOOD LOOKING.GOOD LUCK SONY ERICSSON IN FUTURE.WITH BEST WISHES@THANKS

AHMADRAZA on Feb 04 2007

hey name iz subin i luv sony ericsson very much its a good model man ...............

subin on Feb 05 2007

yeppeeehhh..... congatzzzzz sony ericsson,,,,

maczz on Feb 05 2007



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