Sunday, April 14, 2002
A new face to Symbian OS
Posted by Jason Dunn in "ARTICLE" @ 05:12 PM
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."
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."
