The Sony Ericsson W950i is the third UIQ 3

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Background

The W950 is Sony Ericsson's sixth 'Walkman'-series phone. One of its distinguishing features is the 4 GB internal flash memory, perfect for media storage. However, it does not support memory expansion with any type of memory card.

Hardware

With many core similarities to the M600, the W950 also uses the UIQ 3 software platform, which is based upon

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MBX GPU for hardware-accelerated 3D graphics.

Developing for the W950i

Since the W950i is based upon the UIQ platform, it is easy to make third party applications that can be downloaded to the phone. Developers can choose their preferred

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References

External links

Official Sony Ericsson W958c Webpage

Official Sony Ericsson W950i Webpage

Sony Ericsson

UIQ

Official UIQ developer portal

Sony Ericsson W950 walkman announced - Article from All About Symbian
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