UIQ - History

1998
Spring: Ericsson Mobile Communications in Lund set up a development lab in Ronneby called Mobile Applications Lab. This was the embryo of UIQ Technology.
June: Symbian Ltd. was established in London.
1999
1 April: The company became part of Symbian Ltd, and the new company name was Symbian AB. Work was focused on Quartz 6.0, which was the pen-based communicator later known as UIQ.
December: Number of permanent employees: 21
2000
February: Quartz was publicly announced.
May: Johan Sandberg was appointed General Manager.
September: The first product release of Quartz 6.0 was made.
December: Number of permanent employees: 78.
2001
April: Quartz 6.1 was released.
December: Number of permanent employees: 76.
2002
February: The company name was changed to UIQ Technology AB and the product was re-named UIQ.
March: UIQ 2.0 was released.
December: Number of permanent employees: 85.
The first UIQ phone, Sony Ericsson P800, was released.
UIQ Selected Partner Program was launched for UIQ 2.1.
2003
February:UIQ 2.1 was made public.
October:The first UIQ 2.1 based phone, Sony Ericsson P900, reached the market. Motorola A920 was launched.
December:Number of permanent employees: 102.
2004
February: UIQ 3 was announced at 3GSM.
Motorola A925, Sony Ericsson P910, BenQ P30, Motorola A1000 reached the market.
December: Number of permanent employees: 110.
UIQ Selected Partner Program was launched for UIQ 3.
2005
June: Motorola launched FOMA M1000, based on UIQ, developed jointly with DoCoMo
October: The UIQ Developer Program was launched to support developers on UIQ 3
October: The first UIQ 3 phone was announced by Sony Ericsson
December: Number of permanent employees: 154