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Opera announced that it plans to release the first public beta of its new mobile browser on July 15. The new Opera Mobile 9.5 takes advantage of the the same Presto rendering engine used on the desktop version. It is compatible with any Windows Mobile Pro or Symbian UIQ based device with minor differences, and will probably feature a new UI.

Motorola decided to revive its unpopular UIQ-based Z8 slider by updating it with 7.2Mbps HSDPA support.

The new Z8m model will be available exclusively through SK Telecom in Korea for 484,400 won or approximately $500.

Besides the upgraded HSDPA, this version offers nothing new, and still features a 2.2" QVGA screen, 2Mpix camera with 5x digital zoom, 4GB of expandable memory, Bluetooth and USB 2.

Check out the Sony Ericsson G502, the company's newly announced UIQ-based phone.

Don't expect anything special, though. According to some sources will be released on the 24th and will sport a QVGA display, 2Mpix camera, HSDPA support, Memory Stick M2-expandable storage, and the NetFront browser.

UIQ Technologies announced the availability of a new version of their Symbian-based UIQ platform. The latest UIQ 3.3 build is now available to phone manufacturers and developers, and is targeted at a broader market segment. Some of the new features include:

• Integrated Opera Mobile 9 Browser;
• UIQ Dashboard with (Opera) widgets support;
• Unified messaging (SMS and MMS);
• Java JSR 248 MSA Fullset - Mobile Services Architecture (MSA) support;

The UIQ 3.

Quickoffice announced the availability of its Premier 4.0 business software fro UIQ 3 based smartphones.

The latest version offers "many enhancements that improve usability, including performance optimizations for handling documents of all sizes, support for complex spreadsheet formulas and new, advanced editing capabilities" for Microsoft Office Word, Excel and PowerPoint files.

Sony Ericsson is buying UIQ Technology, the maker of software featured on many of Sony Ericsson's smartphone from its parent Symbian Ltd. UIQ's software provides a user interface for the Symbian platform

Mats Lindoff, Chief Technology Officer at Sony Ericsson reports: “UIQ offers excellent technical flexibility enabling us to provide compelling features such as push email, internet browsing, end user personalization, and enhanced music applications”.