Andreas

Very interesting – I didn’t know Motorola had made public their move away from Qt/E. Re: MIDP3, I also think you can build all core apps on top of MIDP3, but I don’t know how ‘customised’ and vertically integrated the MIDP3 stack has to be in order to deeply bind into the OS (as with Android, SavaJe). Re: GTK vs Qtopia, I used to also see this as black & white. But Trolltech has demoed integration of GTK within the Qtopia stack and I think that there is still value in Qtopia for Nokia, primarily as an application execution environment and secondly as a lighter-than-GTK, proprietary (who cares?) UI framework and AEE on top of S40.

Stefan,

I see Qt as much more than a runtime. It’s an application execution environment (rich runtime) + an application framework (i.e. app lifecycle management, event management, etc) and graphics toolkit. I think .Net and Flash Lite lack the application framework capabilities, and I expect AIR (when and if it is brought to mobile) to also have some rudimentary app framework capabilities.

Andreas

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A note on Motorola: Motorola was moving away from Qt/E prior to the Nokia acquisition. According to Paul Leeper, Director Ecosystem and Market Development, future Linux based phones would not use Qt(Qtopia). This was said at the UIQ Fasttrack conference in Budapest last November. Further, Motorola would focus on a Linux+Java environment because “thats what the carriers want”. They are very much looking forward to MIDP 3.0 (Motorola is heading the Java Community Process). To me it looks like you could pretty much build an entire phone application suite with MIDP 3.0.

With Motorola dropping Qt/E and “everybody else” going for GTK, it looks like Qtopia is pretty much hung out to flap in the wind. Seems like Nokia is a comfortable exit for Trolltech.

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