Qt Extended 4.4 Released (from Qt Software website)
Version 4.4 of Qt Extended, the embedded Qt platform formerly called Qtopia, has been released. Main new features include:
It does not seem to be available for download yet.
The Maemo project has announced that Qt is to be supported on that mobile device platform, used on the Nokia N770 and N800 wireless internet tablets, which currently supports the GTK+ toolkit. They have also announced that Nokia will be hiring Qt developers to work on Maemo. Maemo reckon that the first Qt libraries to be delivered will appear in the last quarter of this year.
UKUUG (not-an-acronym of UK Unix Users' Group) is holding a talk on OpenMoko, the operating system commonly used on the Neo1973 device as a basis for open-source development for Qtopia-based phones, at UCL this Wednesday coming (9th April), at 1830 BST (for approx 2 hours) in Cruciform Lecture Theatre 2, Cruciform Building, Gower Street, London WC1 (map here). The speaker is Ole Tange, a former Hostmaster for .dk and currently a software developer who has worked with Unix since 1991 and with GNU/Linux since 1992. More details at UKUUG here.
Trolltech Releases Qt 4.4 Beta — Trolltech
Trolltech has released a first beta of version 4.4 of Qt, its cross-platform desktop and embedded platform application toolkit. The major new features in this release are:
More details here, with downloads from the link at the top.
Trolltech today announced a partnership with Broadcom, "a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications", to develop a complete Voice-over-IP (VoIP) development platform for IP manufacturers. The platform is to be based on Broadcom's BCM1103 VoIP processor and BCM1180 video and multimedia co-processor and Trolltech's Qtopia.
Qt and Qtopia Core 4.3.3 Released — Trolltech
Trolltech has released version 4.3.3 of Qt, its cross-platform application toolkit, and its embedded cousin Qtopia. Changes:
Trolltech Releases Qtopia 4.2.5 — Trolltech
Trolltech has released version 4.2.5 of Qtopia, its development toolkit and platform for embedded devices with the same API as Qt. Main changes (full list and release notes here):
This is not available under the GPL; open-source developers should use version 4.3. An evaluation version is available here.
Trolltech Releases Beta for Qtopia Phone Edition and Qtopia Platform 4.3 — Trolltech
Trolltech has released a beta of Qtopia Phone Edition and Platform v4.3. For the first time this will include the full release under the General Public License as well as their commercial licence. Major changes include:
The download can be found here.
Trolltech has announced the release of version 4.3.2 of Qt, its cross-platform development toolkit, and Qtopia Core, the version of Qt for embedded devices. Changes include:
Open-source downloads of Qt are available here and Qtopia downloads are here.
Trolltech Announces Qtopia Phone Edition Integration with Neo 1973 Phone — Trolltech
Qtopia has been ported to the Neo1973, a smartphone from the Taiwanese manufacturer FIC with an open Linux platform by OpenMoko. The result is that the whole of Qtopia Phone Edition, including the telephony module, has been released under the GPL (version 2 only) and the usual commercial licence. A technology preview of the new version can be downloaded from here with a binary image to flash onto the Neo1973 phone available on qtopia.net. This does not cover the present version of Qtopia Phone Edition.
Version 4.3.1 of Qt and its embedded version, Qtopia Core, have been released. Among the changes in this version are:
Open source (GPL v2) and evaluation downloads available here.
Trolltech Releases Qtopia 4.2.3 — Trolltech
This is a maintenance release, with bug fixes and performance enhancements, but there are the following enhancements:
Trolltech has announced the release of version 4.2.2 of Qtopia, its embedded Qt applications platform. Changes:
This release also contains a substantial number of bug fixes to several of the toolkit's modules (see release notes). Open source downloads (without the Safe Execution Environment, DRM or telephony) are available here
Trolltech today announced that it had released betas of version 4.3 of Qt, its cross-platform C++ toolkit, and Qtopia Core, the version for embedded Linux devices such as PDAs and mobile phones. New features include:
There is a What's New page with more details, including screenshots, and another in the Qt 4.3 documentation. Downloads are available, under a special evaluation licence, here. A release candidate is expected at the end of April, the final version in early June.
Trolltech has announced the release of version 4.2.1 of Qtopia, its Qt application platform for embedded Linux devices with its own integrated windowing system. Besides bug fixes and performance improvements, this release introduces the Helix DNA multimedia framework, the software behind RealPlayer. Other changes (listed in the release notes) include:
Open source downloads (which do not include the Safe Execution Environment or anything related to telephony) are available here.
Trolltech has announced the release of Qtopia v4.2.0, Qtopia being the embedded device platform for Qt. This version includes VoIP and WiFi functionality, a multimedia player based on RealNetworks' Helix DNA client, basic MIDI support, SVG support and multiple display support. The open source edition lacks the DRM and telephony components. Product home page here; open source downloads here.
Trolltech has announced its release of the Qtopia Platform as part of its Qtopia 4 series. The Platform is "an application framework for the efficient creation of Linux-based devices with a rich multi-application user experience), and features a safe execution environment (SXE), a plug-in framework which "offers a development environment for new features including modem drivers, media codecs and input methods", and allows Java applications to use a native look-and-feel. They have also announced the new Qtopia 4 Phone Edition.
Trolltech has updated its embedded Qt by releasing Qtopia Core 4, which would underlie both phone and PDA editions of the Qtopia environment. This replaces the earlier Qt/Embedded product, using Qt 4.1 while earlier Qt/Embedded products used the Qt2 series, and provides all the features of Qt 4.1 such as right-to-left text, advanced graphics and tool integrations. (OSNews discussion here.)
Trolltech report that its Qtopia Phone Edition has received the 2005 Editor's Choice Award from Open Source World, a Chinese-based journal with a circulation of 40,000 supervised by the Chinese Information ministry, for "Best Embedded Linux Platform". OSW's deputy editor in chief Mr. Sun Zhiyong said this of the product:
Trolltech's Qtopia Phone Edition is the leading application platform and user interface for Linux-based wireless devices. Manufacturers and designers can use the Qtopia Phone Edition to build feature-packed phones while maintaining complete control of branding and user experience. With these exceptional features, Trolltech's Qtopia Phone Edition has proven itself to be the best embedded Linux platform.
Trolltech today announced the release of Qtopia Phone Edition 2.2, described as "the first Linux-based Voice over IP (VoIP) software solution for mobile and wireless phones and converged media devices". Besides Qtopia's usual features, this version includes "a reference integration of an open source VoIP application using session initiation protocol (SIP) and a framework that gives customers flexibility in their choice of SIP stack". It also now includes dual display support, applicaiton transparency, GUI animations, additional SMS (text message) and email capabilities, live MP3 streaming and media player performance improvements, and extended language support. Qtopia home page is here.
Trolltech is supporting a one-day event in Beijing on the 29th of this month called Chinese Mobile Phone Leadership: Leveraging Linux, at the Kerry Centre Hotel. It's "an exclusive conference which will bring together key stakeholders in the Chinese wireless phone market to discuss the strategic importance of Linux-based phones". Participants include MontaVista, Opera Software, Pollex, Teleca, Intel and a number of Chinese mobile phone companies. The event is organised by the China Academy of Telecommunications Research (CATR) of the Ministry of Information Industries (MII). Information in English about the CATR and registration links here.
There is an interview at the above link on Nokia's use of the KDE-derived web rendering engine WebCore in its new Symbian-based platform System 60. There is also a paragraph on Nokia's presence at the recent aKademy in Malaga.
Trolltech is present at the ARM Developers' Conference, to be held in Santa Clara, CA, which started today and finishes Thursday (6th Oct). There is a vast number of presentations and tutorials on numerous subjects to do with developing on the platform, mostly used in embedded devices. Online registration is now closed, but you can still register at the door; conference admission costs $495 per day and entry to the exhibition hall, including keynotes, panels and special events is "complimentary".
Shenzhen-based mobile device company Cellon is to use Qtopia as the basis for its new mobile phone platform, the C8000, which is intended for "wireless handsets that offer full multimedia capabilities, including a media player and mega-pixel video and still camera". Trolltech also report that "a major European Vendor" has already shipped the first C8000-based mobile phone in the summer of 2005.