Symbian UIQ Shared by Motorola and Sony Ericsson

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devices that operate on Symbian/UIQ, like Motorola MOTO Z8, the W960 Walkman phone. and the Sony Ericsson P1. The UIQ interface offered in 2002 the first …

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17 October 2007
The UIQ logo
By: Florin Troaca, Communications News Editor
Symbian UIQ Shared by Motorola and Sony Ericsson
Motorola acquires 50% of UI Holdings BV
Motorola and Sony Ericsson announced they have reached an agreement under which
Motorola will own 50% of UI Holdings BV. UI Holdings BV is the company that holds UIQ
Technology AB, currently owned by Sony Ericsson which acquired it from Symbian in
February this year. Following the agreement, Motorola and Sony Ericsson will closely
collaborate and invest for UIQ development.
Competing with Nokia’s Series 60 software, the UIQ open user interface is licensed by UIQ
Technology to mobile phone vendors all over the globe. Motorola and Sony Ericsson want
to continue license UIQ as an independent and strong cross-vendor user interface for
mobile devices and they agreed that UIQ has to be vendor and chipset independent.
Johan Sandberg, Chief Executive Officer of UIQ Technology, declared: “We are extremely
excited to be working closely with Motorola and Sony Ericsson, two well-established
industry leaders. UIQ offers a truly personal and rich user experience plus important
flexibility for developers, operators and phone vendors as it supports many form factors in
one code base….