Now that UIQ is now part of the Symbian Foundation and no longer under the control of both Sony Ericsson and Motorola, the question everyone mentioned long ago still remains - when will we see Flash Lite on the UIQ platform?
In the manner current events are unfolding in front of us, the question might as well be rephrased as "Will we ever see Flash Lite on the UIQ platform?"
Considering all aspects the way things have developed, it seems unlikely that Sony Ericsson will continue to invest in the UIQ platform. This is strengthened by the confirmation that both Sony Ericsson's P1 successor the "Paris" P5 and the other multimedia giant codenamed "BeiBei" were killed off shortly before the Symbian Foundation tookover UIQ, and the laying off of 200 workers from the the UIQ section in Sweden. And now with the Xperia X1 being the only likely P-series successor (and incidentally it runs Windows Mobile), it's likely that Sony Ericsson will divert it's resources to creating business phones running the Windows Mobile platform in the future.
Which means only one thing - the eventual slashing of support for the smartphones running the UIQ platform. So it's very likely Sony Ericsson will not develop Flash Lite for the UIQ platform.
But there's still hope. Perhaps Digia's new web browser @Web will spring us a nice little surprise in the final release:
Only time will tell...
In the manner current events are unfolding in front of us, the question might as well be rephrased as "Will we ever see Flash Lite on the UIQ platform?"
Considering all aspects the way things have developed, it seems unlikely that Sony Ericsson will continue to invest in the UIQ platform. This is strengthened by the confirmation that both Sony Ericsson's P1 successor the "Paris" P5 and the other multimedia giant codenamed "BeiBei" were killed off shortly before the Symbian Foundation tookover UIQ, and the laying off of 200 workers from the the UIQ section in Sweden. And now with the Xperia X1 being the only likely P-series successor (and incidentally it runs Windows Mobile), it's likely that Sony Ericsson will divert it's resources to creating business phones running the Windows Mobile platform in the future.
Which means only one thing - the eventual slashing of support for the smartphones running the UIQ platform. So it's very likely Sony Ericsson will not develop Flash Lite for the UIQ platform.
But there's still hope. Perhaps Digia's new web browser @Web will spring us a nice little surprise in the final release:
There are some known problems in the first beta release of Digia @Web. During the beta phase will will fix these and possible other problems as much as possible:
Missing Flash support
Only time will tell...
