Group - UIQ Technology

UIQ Technology develops and licenses an open software platform to the world's leading mobile phone manufacturers and supports licensees in the drive towards developing a mass market for open mobile phones. UIQ based phones are powerful and give access to enterprise applications, email, multimedia clips and web pages.[citation needed] UIQ is, for example, used in mobile phones from Sony Ericsson, Motorola, BenQ and Arima. The company is focused on usability design, software engineering, product realization, technical consulting, sales and marketing. UIQ Technology, established in 1999, is owned jointly by Motorola and Sony Ericsson. It has a five-man board of directors, including two representitives from Motorola, two from Sony Ericsson, and one independent. On November 7th 2006, Sony Ericsson announced they had agreed (in principle) to buy UIQ from Symbian Ltd. and run it as a separate subsidiary. The UIQ products would be "openly available, licensed on equal terms to all its licensees". The sale will complete in the next few months "pending regulatory approval and customary closing conditions". The acquisition was completed in February 2007.