UIQ Technology, now owned by Sony Ericsson of course, is ramping up its profile ahead of next week's show, announcing new partnerships with the likes of EMCC, Epocware, Visto and SysOpen Digia.
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UIQ all partnered up
Sometimes I muse a thought in my mind:
"What if Nokia dropped S60 and joined UIQ, to make a real stand together with SE and UIQ4, againt the Apple/MS threat?"
It's all about software quality now, folks. I understand it's not easy to change the thinking from making lots of new hardware models with half-baked software inside - to providing complete and easy experience to the User.
Segmenting Symbian software will not help Symbian grow.
The same Symbian apps should have ability to run on Moto, Nokia, SE handsets. This will surge the development for the platform. Right now it's easier to become a MacOS X (think iPhone) programmer, or adapt your Windows skills to Mobile version than learn the long and winding road to native Symbian app. Add the surrent segmentation into S60/UIQ/MotoRIZR and it does not give you enough incentive to learn Symbian because you will have to modify the code for many Symbian-based platforms. Imagine MS doing that - Win2K programs for Dell, Win2K programs for IBM...
Nokia would gain the touchscreen UI with pretty decent usability.
Right off the start - they would just focus on the apps and usabilty.