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2016-08-18 , 18:46
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#22
Originally Posted by rcolistete View Post
Symbian S60 was limited in Touch.
There was Symbian UIQ optimized for touch screens, its 1st smartphone was Sony Ericsson P800 in 12/2002.
But UIQ was ditched in 2008, only Symbian S60 was the choice for Symbian Foundation.
If Symbian UIQ had been maintained, it would be better UI to dispute with iOS and Android in 2008-2011.
I loved my P800 and P910 but Sony Ericsson followed those with the P990 which was underpowered for the bloated mess that UIQ 3 on top of Symbian 9 was.

I much preferred UIQ 2 to UIQ v3. v3 had stupid animations and annoying pauses in the UI.

SE managed to kill UIQ by launching it on woefully bad hardware. IIRC the next smartphones they released ran Windows Mobile. That's how much faith they had still in Symbian.

Yet in Nokia S60 seemed to be some kind of cult that had to be fed by sacrificing all common sense on it.
 

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