Posts Tagged ‘QT’

Nokia Competitors Line Up for MeeGo

April 17th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: MeeGo, Platforms: QT | No Comments »

Though Nokia is scaling down on both MeeGo and Symbian until it starts shipping the first Windows Phone 7 devices, competitors seem very interested in having MeeGo on their devices.

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Porting QT to Android Pretty Easy!?

April 5th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: QT | No Comments »

According to CuteHacks, it doesn’t take much to convert QT apps to run on the Android platform. IN a blogpost, one of the developers claims all it takes are a couple of lines of code that need to be changed.

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Nokia Sells Off QT

March 8th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: QT | No Comments »

The once proud parent of QT has now announced it will be selling the development platform to Digia. The transfer of ownership should be happening along this month.

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Nokia: No QT on Windows Phone 7

February 11th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: QT | No Comments »

Though Nokia always said QT is their way to bridge development on their mobile platforms, Nokia now confirms the deal with Microsoft will not involve that bit of technology.

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Ovi Store Ads QT and Arabic Support for Symbian^3 Devices

February 9th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: QT, Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

Sometimes you stumble across things that sound pretty logical, yet they seem to come late. One of those things is Nokia’s announcement that the Ovi Store will finally support Arabic on Symbian^3 devices.

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AppCon: The Future of Apps with Nokia and QT

November 10th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: MeeGo, Platforms: QT, Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

Andreas Jekl explained the OS strategy of Nokia. While many expect Series 40 to be replaced with Symbian, Nokia will remain building S40 devices for the low-end markets.

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Inneractive Adds QT and WRT Support

October 13th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming, Platforms: QT, Platforms: WRT | No Comments »

Developers of QT and WRT based apps will now be able to integrate Inneractive’s SDK’s into their apps and games. It is the first time the company dedicates itself to WRT widgets.

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Ovi, The Numbers and The Future

September 14th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: J2me, Platforms: QT, Platforms: Symbian, Platforms: WRT | 2 Comments »

Ovi pushes out 2 million downloads a day. 90% of the Ovi visitors actually find something they want to download and 85% of the traffic is returning traffic. Carrier billing is the most popular billing method.

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Intel and Nokia Release a new OS Called MeeGo

February 15th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: MeeGo | No Comments »

MeeGo is a mix of Nokia’s new Maemo platform with Intel’s Moblin. This Linux based OS will be installed on devices from both vendors like Phones, Netbooks, Connected TV’s, In-Car systems and much more.

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Rumours: Nokia to Ditch Symbian?

August 12th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: MeeGo, Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

According to the German Financial Times, the love between Nokia and Symbian might be over soon. The vendor would switch to their other open source OS called Maemo.