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A Symbian Spokesperson gave a statement to ZD|Net and apparently said they are thrilled that Nokia plans to port Qt to S60 and it agrees with Nokia’s statement that this purchase will make S60 more competitive in the marketplace.
Motorola told Linux Devices that since joining the LiMo foundation over a year ago they’ve been in the process of switching to GTK; none of Motorola’s development tools are based on Qt either.
There you have it. The whole mobile industry is sitting on their hands trying to understand why Nokia purchased Trolltech. I think they did it to reduce coding redundancy, others say Nokia plans on gutting Symbian, frankly we will not know what the outcome is for at least a year or two since that is typically how much time it takes for a mobile phone to be conceived, prototyped and shipped.
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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.
