Trolltech's Qt WebKit Integration brings Web 2.0 services to mobile phones

Trolltech's Qt WebKit Integration brings Web 2.0 services to mobile
phones

Helps mobile operators and handset manufacturers enrich phone
applications with live web content such as online maps, music stores and
instant messaging

 

Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, Spain - February 11, 2008 -
Trolltech(r) has integrated its Qt cross-platform development framework
with WebKit, the web browser technology used in Apple's iPhone and
millions of Nokia smartphones. The integration of Qt and WebKit will
enable mobile operators and handset manufacturers to create a customer
experience that enriches mobile phone applications with live web
content. 

 

Google(tm) Earth and iTunes are examples of such services currently
available on the desktop. With Trolltech's Qt WebKit Integration, these
type of applications -  along with services such as social networking,
instant messaging and real-time financial updates - can also be
delivered to mobile phones.

 

Trolltech expects the Qt WebKit Integration to provide a vital tool as
industry players strive to create attractive, revenue-generating
services to take a share of the lucrative mobile entertainment market.

 

The integration of Qt and WebKit  will enable handset manufacturers and
operators to build advanced user interfaces that incorporate real-time
web content and services more smoothly and easily than previously
possible. This will help create dynamic, interactive software that
combines online and offline content, and transfers the user experience
of the web to mobile phones. The Qt WebKit Integration allows device
vendors and service providers to define their own browser environment,
guaranteeing a consistent user experience across operating systems and
devices. 

 

Lars Knoll - one of the creators of the predecessor to WebKit and now
Trolltech's vice president of engineering - explains: "The Qt WebKit
Integration helps developers to combine live web content with mobile and
desktop applications. This erodes the boundaries between the desktop,
mobile phones and the Web. It also enables graphics and Web designers to
join developers in making user interfaces more advanced than ever - no
matter which device or desktop application you are using."

 

The popularity of WebKit within the open source and commercial
development community has led to a continual improvement in the quality
of the code. The rendering engine is compliant with the latest standards
for HTML, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, SVG and AJAX.

 

The Qt WebKit Integration enables developers to implement WebKit in a Qt
environment, which means all painting of Web pages, network
communication and XML handling are based on Qt. Qt developers can also
display web pages and use the JavaScript scripting language to make
their applications more dynamic and interactive. By integrating HTML
web-design elements with Qt-based functionality, it is now possible to
create cutting-edge user interfaces.beyond what is feasible today.

 

With all these benefits available to handset manufactures and operators,
the time to market for new appealing consumer services will dramatically
improve.

 

Availability

The Qt WebKit Integration will be available as a separate module in Qt
4.4 which will be released in mid Q2, 2008.

 

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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