A new face to Symbian OS

[Jason Dunn]

http://www.infosync.no/show.php?id=1681

infoSync has an interesting article with a whack of screen shots from a Sybmian UI called "UIQ". Very nice looking screen shots, with some nice UI touches. I'm not 100% convinced that having a touch-screen phone like the P800 makes sense (especially when you see how incredibly small the stylus is), but we'll see what the market thinks. It has been known to disagree with me! ;-)



"UIQ is based upon Symbian OS 7.0 and was designed mainly for peer-to-peer messaging, including among other things Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) support. Other important applications and services include a calendaring application, Internet browsing capabilities, note taking, voice recording, a calculator, an application launcher and picker, a status bar, a control panel, an application installer, a framework for handwriting recognition, a virtual keyboard, viewers for Word files and images and a help application."

This part was quite impressive - below is a powerful round-up of Internet protocols that the Pocket PC can't completely match at this point:

"Additionally, UIQ also offers extensive Internet capabilities (including support for: HTML 4.01; HTTP 1.1; HTTPS support over SSL 3.0 and TLS 1.0; CSS 1 and CSS 2; XML 1.0 and XHTML 1.0; Java script 1.3; 128-bit encryption and Java applets) and synchronisation via Infrared, Bluetooth and Serial Port with common desktop applications and SyncML servers."

[Jason Dunn]

http://www.infosync.no/show.php?id=1681

infoSync has an interesting article with a whack of screen shots from a Sybmian UI called "UIQ". Very nice looking screen shots, with some nice UI touches. I'm not 100% convinced that having a touch-screen phone like the P800 makes sense (especially when you see how incredibly small the stylus is), but we'll see what the market thinks. It has been known to disagree with me! ;-)



"UIQ is based upon Symbian OS 7.0 and was designed mainly for peer-to-peer messaging, including among other things Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) support. Other important applications and services include a calendaring application, Internet browsing capabilities, note taking, voice recording, a calculator, an application launcher and picker, a status bar, a control panel, an application installer, a framework for handwriting recognition, a virtual keyboard, viewers for Word files and images and a help application."

This part was quite impressive - below is a powerful round-up of Internet protocols that the Pocket PC can't completely match at this point:

"Additionally, UIQ also offers extensive Internet capabilities (including support for: HTML 4.01; HTTP 1.1; HTTPS support over SSL 3.0 and TLS 1.0; CSS 1 and CSS 2; XML 1.0 and XHTML 1.0; Java script 1.3; 128-bit encryption and Java applets) and synchronisation via Infrared, Bluetooth and Serial Port with common desktop applications and SyncML servers."

[Timothy Rapson]

Alas poor Symbian/Epoc. I knew him well.


Wonder if this will really make it? And what good will it do after Symbian/Epoc abandoned their developers and end users just when they could have had a knockout PDA on the market for a few more weeks committment.

[Jason Dunn]

What are you talking about Timothy? What did Symbian do?

[bk227865]

It looks so ... so... pokemon :lol:

[ChrisD]

Jason,
Based on the description you posted, clearly, the Pocket PC is really lacking in terms of it's support for web standards.

Pocket PC uses HTML 3.2 and supports Javascript 1.1. I do not believe it supports XHTML or CSS either.

Given these differences, I have to say that Symbian looks like it may make a better web browser than Microsoft.