Thread: Shocker! Nokia will update N8 to Symbian ^4 and other news
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2010-10-24 , 07:11
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Originally Posted by HellFlyer View Post
Symbian is one of the oldest OSes around and its simply not designed to work with touchscreen devices however with Nokia's help it is becoming close to such OS but it wont be suitable for high end for sure ....Nokia knows that as well, hence MeeGo is their answer for high end sector
UIQ has been used by SonyEricsson on the P800 already in 2002 and since on the P-series. UIQ is a touch screen interface on Symbian. Back in those days it was either SonyEriccson, Motorola or Palm that could offer touch screen. Both SonyEricsson and Motorola used Symbian with UIQ. The Motorola phones were way ahead of its time equipped with aGPS already in 2003/2004.

I still got my P1i, the pinnacle of the P-series (some would say)

Sadly UIQ simply could not renew themselves due to a number of reasons, and went bankrupt in 2008.