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Idea: Motorola should launch the Symbian UIQ powered Moto Q

By: , IntoMobile
Monday, January 21st, 2008 at 4:15 PM

Motorola Q9 running UIQ?

I’ve been thinking about this for some time, and now I’ve decided to share my thoughts with you folks. Don’t know about you, but I simply love the Motorola Q’s form factor. Don’t get me wrong, Motorola hasn’t invented the full QWERTY keyboard equipped smartphone with the Q. Rather, the American handset manufacturer made it look cool — especially with the latest Q9 series smartphones. That being said I would love to see them announcing the UIQ powered version of the Q. Somehow that would make a perfect sense — they already have the hardware and design in place, and all that’s left is to use Symbian with UIQ instead of Windows Mobile. Ok, maybe hardware will need some tweaking before that happens, but that doesn’t sound that complicated for a company like Motorola.

There are some people who just can’t stand Windows Mobile, why not offer them an alternative? Motorola is the co-owner of UIQ Technology, but so far we’ve only seen them releasing two phones using the platform – Z8 and Z10. The Mobile World Congress is coming and personally I’m hoping they’ll announce one or maybe even more UIQ powered devices. Hopefully, they’ll show us a device with the full QWERTY keyboard… And in case you’re wondering, we don’t have any inside information — it’s just me speculating.

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Dusan Belic

Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.

  • mohi

    Though i am using symbian phone (Nokia e61i)but i really hate this OS because symbian phones restart automatically while third party application is used.
    :razz: