Opera have announced today that BenQ's new UIQ phone due for release early in 2004 will use Opera's Smartphone Edition browser. The phone will use Symbian OS 7.0.
Finally,one of the top-notch applications for UIQ - OggPlay has left beta stage and its now at version 1.00.You can read the release notes here and you can download the application here
In light of the recent launch of the Sony Ericsson P900, which incorporates the latest version of UIQ, P800 owners have started a petition to Sony Ericsson requesting that they keep supporting the P800 by offering an upgrade to UIQ 2.1 for existing P800 users.
Sony Ericsson have launched a new develop website. Previsouly information was available on Ericsson's Mobility World (mophun, Java, Symbian). This will now be available on Sony Ericsson Developer World. There are several levels of memberships (including a free one). Pay for levels have the option to buy phones at discounted prices in an early access program.
Handango and Sony Ericsson have teamed up to create a software shop from which applications can be downloaded (and purchased) over the air to a P800 or a P900. This represents the first complete Handango catalog to be available OTA.
View, Edit, Create, Word and Excel files, anytime, anywhere, Quickoffice Premier makes it possible by putting full access to "mission critical" MS Office files on any Symbian UIQ smartphone! With Quickoffice Premier, you can read native Microsoft® Word and Excel files in memory on cards, as well as receive them as e-mail attachments or MMS messages. Opened documents are complete with most original formatting including color, varying font sizes, bolding, & italics.
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The Pad is the fastest way to write and draw on a P800 / P900, no need to open a file, save a file or select an input method, just pickup your phone and start writing immediately using the full screen.
SMan is a simple utility that manages processes running on your P800. While the idea is not new (qFileMan, Switcher), SMan's improves upon the existing utilities by providing a friendlier user interface and a number of additional features
FileXchange is an application that enables a mobile phone user to access the phone's internal file system and the file system of a remote PC via GPRS, Internet, Bluetooth, and Infrared.
Pdf+ is a viewer for Portable Document Format (or PDF) files. Pdf+ reads and displays standard PDF files, you do not need to convert a document with your PC to a proprietary format.