Trolltech announces support for mobile touch screens Devices

Trolltech Extends Mobile Linux Leadership Through 
Support of Touch Screen Devices

Latest generation of Qtopia Phone Edition  
released at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona



Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, Spain - February 11, 2008 -
Trolltech(r) announced the continued evolution of Qtopia(r) Phone
Edition, the leading application platform and user interface for
Linux-based mobile phones. Trolltech is the leader in mobile Linux
platforms with more than 10 million devices shipped.

 

With version 4.3, Qtopia Phone Edition affirms its position as the
category leader with major improvements in real-world start-up speeds,
external benchmarking for compliance with key industry standards, and a
range of new features. 

 

The latest generation builds on the proven strengths of the Qtopia
architecture, and includes: 

*         Finger-touch user interface - This release adds a UI theme
designed for finger touch operation, with a unique virtual keyboard, and
an SDK for the touch-screen "OpenMoko" Neo1973 device.  

*         Outlook synchronization - The new Qtopia Sync Agent allows
data synchronization between Qtopia and Microsoft Outlook. 

*         Enhanced media support - Qtopia now supports GStreamer as well
as Real Networks Helix DNA media frameworks for mobile audio and video.
The Qtopia media player is enhanced with a new UI and extended
functions, and an audio policy framework is introduced to manage complex
audio channels across a range of inputs and outputs.

*         Faster start-ups - in real-world testing on a Greenphone,
Qtopia 4.3 applications start on average 50% faster than the previous
generation.

*         Improvements to telephony and SIM Toolkit for GCF (Global
Certification Forum) compliance - The Qtopia telephony stack and user
interface have undergone further improvements to enhance Qtopia's
compliance with GCF. 

 

"With Qtopia 4.3 Trolltech continues to provide the developer tools to
deliver feature-packed phones to market more quickly than ever," said
cofounder and CEO Haavard Nord. "Our end goal is to show consumers that
they can expect more from their mobile phone experience."

 
About Trolltech

Trolltech provides cross-platform software development frameworks and
application platforms. Trolltech's Qt is used in popular software such
as Skype(r), Google Earth, Adobe(r) Photoshop(r) Elements, Lucasfilm(r)
and by more than 5000 customers worldwide. Trolltech's Qtopia(r) has
enabled a new generation of exciting consumer devices such as mobile
handsets, video-phones, set-top boxes and media players. Trolltech's
software has shipped in more than 10 million devices.

Trolltech's products enable companies to easily build and deploy
software across a wide range of operating systems and electronic
devices. The company serves desktop and embedded application providers,
as well as consumer electronics and mobile vendors, who face challenges
in delivering user-friendly and differentiated software. Trolltech
enables customers to accelerate innovation, shorten time to market and
increase revenues. Trolltech's software improves the user experience by
increasing the appeal and quality of customer's applications on desktop
and devices. The future proof Qt software allows developers to code
less, create more and deploy anywhere.

Trolltech supports open source and commercial customers. The company has
offices in California, U.S.A.; Brisbane, Australia; Beijing, China;
Berlin and Munich, Germany; Oslo, Norway. It is listed on the Oslo Stock
Exchange under the ticker symbol TROLL. For more information about
Trolltech, please visit www.trolltech.com.

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