 New Cellon Phone Platform Built with Trolltech's Qtopia Topic: Qt Extended Date: 2005/9/7 Largest Independent Design House Uses Qtopia Technology for its Newest Linux-Based Handset Platform Oslo, Norway - September 06 2005
A major European Vendor has already shipped the first mobile phones built on the C8000 platform in the third quarter of 2005. "Cellon produces handsets for some of the largest and most well-known brands in the world, including Alcatel, Philips and Siemens, and we are honored that they selected Trolltech's mobile application platform for their Linux-based phone design," said Trolltech CEO Haavard Nord. "Linux is an ideal operating system for Cellon's complex, full-featured phones, and Qtopia gives them a proven technology for developing customized, innovative applications and user interfaces for this platform." The Cellon C8000 platform is designed for wireless handsets that offer full multimedia capabilities, including a media player and mega-pixel video and still camera. The backbone for a true smartphone, the tri-band GSM/GPRS C8000 platform allows users to switch between camera, phone and data entry functionalities with ease. For more information on the Cellon C8000 handset platform, please go to http://www.cellon.com/products.jsp?id=18. "Trolltech's Qtopia enabled us to provide a unique GUI for the C8000 phones, another way we can strengthen the value of the major brands that are our customers," said Cellon CEO Jason Sun. "Moreover, with Trolltech's inherent cross-platform technology, we are able to quickly move our existing applications to the Linux platform, which greatly enhances our speed-to-market."
Trolltech's award-winning Qtopia technology is a complete, customizable development environment and user interface for mobile phones and personal digital assistants. Qtopia lets manufacturers and service providers cost-effectively develop Linux-based devices while maintaining complete control of branding and user interface design. It 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. Qtopia is a key enabler of the growing market for mobile devices built on the embedded Linux operating system. Today over 70 leading vendors are designing, building or shipping devices based on Qtopia and related Trolltech software for embedded Linux, including Motorola, Sharp and Archos. You can find downloadable pictures in our Press Kit. About Trolltech: Trolltech® provides leading software for cross-platform application development on the desktop and for embedded Linux environments. The company's flagship products are Qt®, a cross-platform software development framework for the desktop; and Qtopia®, a customizable application platform and user interface for Linux-based consumer devices. Trolltech software is the foundation for thousands of leading products worldwide, many from Global 2000 companies. Trolltech is a second-generation open source company, with dual licensing that supports open source values and methodology in a profitable, sustainable business. For more information about Trolltech, please go to http://www.trolltech.com. About Cellon Cellon International is a leading independent design center for wireless terminals and modules. The Company provides complete module, platform and terminal-ready production solutions for top-tier handset OEMs and private label distributors worldwide. Cellon has more than 800 employees worldwide and operations in the United States, China and France. In addition, the company has built strategic relationships with leading technology players and third-party software developers. Over 20 million wireless handsets that are in use today are powered by Cellon technology. This article comes from Qtextended.org38 http://qtextended.org The URL for this story is: http://qtextended.org/article.php?storyid=32 |