| 21st December - Trolltech
announced that Qtopia Phone Edition, the company’s application platform and
user interface for Linux-based mobile phones, has been selected by Chinese mobile
phone manufacturer ZTE as the Linux-based application framework for ZTE U980.
The U980 is ZTE’s mobile phone platform created for China’s national
3G standard TD-SCDMA. Smartphones based on this platform will be supplied through
China Mobile and sold into the market. ZTE is the biggest infrastructure
supplier in China’s TD-SCDMA 3G market. To facilitate 3G smartphone development
ZTE created the U980 platform to be one of the smartphone solutions used to create
3G phones. ZTE has long experience with Qtopia Phone Edition and Linux, having
already released two Qtopia smartphones (the e3 and e700) in the Chinese market.
“Qtopia offers the advantage of a comprehensive development platform
while being very flexible,” said Luo Zhong Sheng, Ph. D, General Manager,
TD-SCDMA Product Line, Handsets Division of ZTE. “We hope to leverage both
advantages when building our internal TD-SCDMA mobile phone platform, U980. It
will enable us to create new and complex devices quickly and efficiently while
supporting the Chinese 3G standard.” “This additional relationship
with ZTE affirms their confidence in Qtopia as a fundamental element of their
smartphone platform,” said Haavard Nord, Trolltech CEO. “We are honored
to be part of the deployment of TD-SCDMA in China through this new cooperation
with ZTE. We believe that this partnership is the result of our early commitment
to TD-SCDMA technology and to China.” Trolltech’s award-winning
Qtopia® is unrivaled as the application platform for efficient creation of
virtually any type of Linux-based device. Qtopia’s comprehensive product
family offers an unmatched flexibility and control for customizing the user experience.
Qtopia Phone Edition extends the flexibility and cost-savings benefits
of Linux to the mobile market, serving as an alternative to proprietary software
platforms, such as Windows Mobile and Symbian. Back
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