User Interface & Development Platform for smart phones
In essence, UIQ is what allows you to use your phone and interact with it, as well as create new content, applications and services for all UIQ users. UIQ is built on Symbian OS, the world leading operating system for smartphones.
An interface to the world's most powerful phones
The user interface refers to the different means and mechanisms you (the user) have at your disposal to interact with your phone, as well as the ways to show the results of your actions and inputs.
Read more about the UIQ User Interface: what you can do with it and what it can do for you.
It's a lifestyle and an experience
The UIQ user interface provides efficient and effective user interaction and enables the best user experience on phones with varying shapes, styles and interactions. A good user experience is one of the main features of UIQ.
Read more about the user experience on UIQ.
Applications to do what you want, and more
Included in all the UIQ-powered phones, is the UIQ Application Suite: a set of must-have applications delivering all the key functionalities of a mobile phone, from reading your text messages to managing your contacts, adding meetings to your agenda, browsing the web, etc. In addition to these applications, you can download and install many more, to add functionality and services to your phone, even after you have purchased it.
Read more about the UIQ Application Suite and third-party applications.
A development platform for all
So how is it possible to extend your UIQ phone features and capabilities any time? It's because third-party software developers can create applications, games and services to be used on the UIQ phones: UIQ provides a software platform and a set of tools for them to develop innovative and outstanding content for the UIQ phones. The architecture and unique features of UIQ makes it a platform of choice for the large and ever-growing UIQ developer community, who want to target multiple phones from several manufacturers at once.
Read more about the UIQ development platform.