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Trolltech, a Norweign company that specializes in cross platform frameworks, is in talks to be bough out by Nokia for around $150 million. Nokia plans to use the newly acquired talent to reduce development cycles and redundancy. Take the contact list for example, currently the S40 and S60 guys have to write separate versions of an application that essentially does the same thing. Some may argue that the contact list program on S40 does more than the same application on S60; regardless now this application can be written once and compiled for both S40 and S60 therefore giving Nokia more time to work on bringing more services and better software out. With the Trolltech purchase Nokia hopes to use the Qt framework to bring all the current platforms together, including Maemo, and to make the desktop Ovi experience as seamless as possible.
No time tables have been given for when this will actually occur and no word has been given about whether or not Nokia plans to build a mobile phone that utilizes Trolltech’s Qtopia platform. 2008 looks to be more interesting by the minute.
[Via: Nokia Press Release, All About Symbian, Internet News]
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Stefan Constantinescu
Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.
