NewLC - Diffrece B/W S60 and UIQ - Comments

Re: Diffrece B/W S60 and UIQ

prajwal.r.m — Tue, 27 May 2008 07:41:05 +0200

Its sad how anybody can even think of comparing UIQ with s60.UIQ is nothing but outdated UI, looks more like those olden days console based UI(which were developed using Ncurses ). And regarding the touch it was already there in s60 only h/w using it were not released.And it is becoz of this s60's UI and other feature like support for different runtimes (eg: C runtime) makes it more powerful platform.If u look at s60 in current state it supports flash and even many runtimes like web(recently released in press).UIQ is nowhere close to it.It is few decades behind.S60 rocks.

Re: Diffrece B/W S60 and UIQ

RaviRawat — Tue, 27 May 2008 06:56:37 +0200

Hi
Thanks to everybody

Re: Diffrece B/W S60 and UIQ

Genesis P — Mon, 26 May 2008 23:21:12 +0200

Both S60 and UIQ are perfect. Just S60 has a bigger market or so I've heard (might be I've heard wrong). It just so happened. It might change or might not change. Or might be some Android or whatever will come and eat them all who knows. One time you work with S60 next time they might want you to work with UIQ if you know Symbian you will manage that transition.

Re: Diffrece B/W S60 and UIQ

Symbian_Neil — Mon, 26 May 2008 16:21:48 +0200

Ravinder,

If you give the correct reason for which you want the data, the people trying to help you can answer you more accurately. Asking some thing the way you think (nobody would be able to know what you are thinking and for what reason)

S60 and UIQ ..both have their own charms and own pains both from developers point of view and end-users. Both have their own place. Anybody trying to give you an answer is only going to give you his personal opinion which might not exactly reflect the general consensus. These opinions vary with the people you ask, depending on geographical location, personal needs, access to devices, personal comfort, etc.

I think as a developer you should more think in terms of how you want to position your product, and what would be the target audience and whether your application would be more appealing to a certain section of users.

Anyway, although I havent given you any drawbacks or advantages, I hope it helps you in some way

Good Luck!!

Re: Diffrece B/W S60 and UIQ

rbrunner — Mon, 26 May 2008 12:44:37 +0200

.is UIQ have some drawback.

Probably the wrong question. I don't think UIQ per se has solid drawbacks. As an UI it's ok, and even is currently ahead of S60 in certain points, first of all touchscreen support of course.

If you ask me the question should rather be: Why is SE not as successful as Nokia in selling Symbian-based smartphones? That's an awfully complicated and multi-faceted question...

If you are contemplating whether you should or should not porting your S60 application(s) to UIQ, I think nobody will be able to answer that question for you. Your problem, you decide

Re: B/W S60 and UIQ

RaviRawat — Mon, 26 May 2008 11:45:03 +0200

Hi,

I want to know S60 still have market in market but is going
down why....is UIQ have some drawback.

thanks,

Re: Diffrece B/W S60 and UIQ

prajwal.r.m — Mon, 26 May 2008 11:17:25 +0200

Hi,

S60 and UIQ are two different platforms built on top of Symbian OS.
S60 is developed by Nokia and UIQ is developed by Symbian but is bought by Ericsson.
Actually Symbian provides all the basic OS functionalities like device management and a basic
UI and it is left to other licensees to make their own look and feel.

Re: Diffrece B/W S60 and UIQ

jupitar — Mon, 26 May 2008 10:43:28 +0200

http://discussion.forum.nokia.com/forum/showthread.php?t=73848
and surf the net for more informations.

Re: Diffrece B/W S60 and UIQ

rbrunner — Mon, 26 May 2008 10:16:37 +0200

It's best to have a look yourself. There are a lot of UIQ programming resources available on the Internet.

Short answer, all UI classes are different: different classes for views, dialogs, menus, everything that has to do with the user interface. Only some controls are used in S60 and in UIQ3 as well, e.g. CEikEdwin and CEikRichTextEditor.

S60 and UIQ seem to separate more over time: The difference between UIQ2 and S60 was not yet as big as the difference now between UIQ3 and S60, especially with the *very* special new resource structures that UIQ3 invented, much more complicated than the good old dialogs.

Diffrece B/W S60 and UIQ

RaviRawat — Mon, 26 May 2008 09:08:07 +0200

Hi ,
every body can anybody explain me what is
diffrence between S60 and UIQ.
Thanks.