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2016-08-18 , 19:53
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Originally Posted by aegis View Post
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.
well, they didn't have much choice. Symbian supported a lot of things but not exactly recent (at that time HW) since it was very light and NOKIA didn't need better HW for their crappy S60. NOKIA forced SE to drop UIQ since S60 became default UI within symbian foundation. Then they pushed those S60 phones (Satio and one more I think) and turned to win mobile.
And I agree that UIQ2 was better, more "smart". With UIQ3 they tried to reach less geeky people. But even that was miles ahead of S60. The biggest issue of P990 was lack of RAM just like on N900. P1 with double the RAM was performing much better. Unfortunately, all of UIQ3 phones other than P990 had slightly different (dumber) navigation. My P990 is still alive and kickin'.
 

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