![]() UIQ Technology filed for bankruptcy in January 2009, which was the final nail in the coffin for the UIQ platform. Many Motorola UIQ devices planned for 2009 were cancelled, including the, codenamed 'Ruby'. In 2007 they returned to UIQ with the launch of the., which was using the competing (later S60) platform, created one UIQ device called the Nokia 6708, which is a rebadged P31 and was only released in the Asia Pacific region.Sony Ericsson bought UIQ Technology in November 2006 and the next year Motorola bought half of it.After the creation of the and their favouring of the S60 as the UI of choice, UIQ's future was uncertain as it could no longer develop the software for Symbian OS. ![]() Motorola also developed some products using UIQ but abandoned the platform in 2003 in favour of, along with its stake in Symbian Ltd. Engineers thereafter created a lighter version of the software which was presented in 2002 and first shipped that year with the.Sony Ericsson was the main using the UIQ platform on its products. Contents.History UIQ was the result of 'Quartz', a user interface for pen that was one of the three provisional interfaces that were designed by The first three Quartz phones never made it to market, including 's 'Odin' in a joint venture with which was cancelled in January 2001, causing Psion's shares to deteriorate.
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