Any UIQ or 3G love for the US of A, folks?

ENGADGET: Sony Ericsson rumors aplenty Mobile

First up, the music-oriented Walkman series could be growing by a solid six devices in the coming months, topped off by a successor to the UIQ-based W950 codenamed "Maria, " a (possibly UIQ-based) clamshell dubbed W910, and the oft-discussed Ai.

ENGADGET: Sony Ericsson rumors aplenty Mobile

Other highlights include a promise that HSDPA will factor into the company's 2007 plans, a wide-scale migration of the FastPort connector to the sides of the handsets, and a shortening of the span from announcement to release of UIQ-based models (a move we applaud).

ENGADGET: Sony Ericsson rumors aplenty Mobile

Moto never had a lot of stake in the Symbian game to begin with, and what little it did have was in the UIQ camp -- the camp being killed off in Symbian's transition to an open platform -- and what's more, the company has made no secret of its ambitions to become an Android powerhouse.

ENGADGET: Motorola abandoning Symbian, taking a breather to ramp up Android?