You may remember Symbian as an OS for old-school smartphones, but it had touch-centric branches as well. Who here has used a phone with Symbian UIQ? It’s a dinosaur now, extinct and replaced by better adapted species, but like those Jurassic reptiles, UIQ still draws interest from gawking visitors to the museum.
UIQ’s story begins at Symbian Ltd. – a collaboration between Nokia, Sony, Ericsson, Motorola and Psion – in the distant 1998. In 2002, the newly formed Sony Ericsson started using UIQ for its touch-enabled phones.
The company had some prior experience, courtesy of the…