From the monthly archives:

February 2011

Not just another tablet. The first MeeGo tablet.

by Carol Røsland on February 23, 2011

The WeTab MeeGo Tablet Using Qt It’s true. There are MeeGo devices being commercially distributed and they are built on Qt. The guys at WeTab GmbH have been shipping their MeeGo tablet, WeTab, since the third quarter of 2010. They also recently released an SDK , so all of you Qt enthusiasts can publish Qt-based [...]

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Qt at MWC: Our Qt HTML5 jumping Norwegian guy

by Henry Haverinen on February 17, 2011

Most people are well aware that Qt includes WebKit integration, and has included it since Qt 4.4. This week at Mobile World Congress we are showing what people can do with Qt WebKit and the technologies commonly referred to as HTML5 on mobile devices. The demo we have features a range of apps, including my [...]

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Qt at MWC: Qt and Near-Field Communications (NFC)

by David Stone on February 16, 2011

We are continuing our Qt at MWC series. In light of last Friday’s announcements we also continue to search for answers that our community is asking. We are not done communicating on that front, however we want to also show what we are doing at Mobile World Congress. What is NFC? For those that don’t [...]

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Qt at MWC – Cross-platform Qt-based games

by David Stone on February 16, 2011

As we continue our showcase around Qt-related technologies being demonstrated at Mobile World Congress (hall 1, booth 1E44), we come to one of our favorites: The Chicken Wrangler! First, the concept behind the demo/game: We wanted to explore creating an app that was capable of running on different devices, such as handsets and netbooks yet [...]

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Nokia CTO Rich Green speaks about Qt

by Aron Kozak on February 16, 2011

As promised we have some fresh information for you. Nokia CTO Rich Green took some time to address one of the questions that relate to Qt’s future and Qt’s role within Nokia. Please see the video below. I hope it helps some.

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Moving forward – Qt at MWC

by David Stone on February 15, 2011

This post is being written from the top of our impressive double decker Qt booth at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. With the Nokia smartphone strategy news, the blog posts, the ensuing responses (Daniel is still filtering through email notifications about comments on his blog post) we haven’t actually had much of a chance to [...]

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Update on Qt

by Aron Kozak on February 14, 2011

Judging by the sheer volume of comments on Daniel’s post on Saturday you are all feeling like we are. Not the finest time in the history of Qt for sure, but also not the death of Qt that some of you are predicting either. I was unable to continue to reply to all the comments [...]

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Nokia new strategic direction. What is the future for Qt?

by Daniel Kihlberg on February 12, 2011

Wow, what a day… Nokia outlined its new platform strategy for smartphones, with Windows Phones as it primary smartphone platform in a proposed partnership with Microsoft… and Microsoft’s tools would be used for Nokia Windows Phone application development … and guess what, it has raised a lot of questions in the Qt community. So the [...]

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Pro snowboarders, tracking and Qt apps. Join the fun!

by David Stone on February 8, 2011

OK. Personal bias alert. I am a snowboarder. I flirted with skiing for a bit last year but this winter I am back on the board and in love with it all over again. This story came across my inbox and I couldn’t resist. Nokia and snowboarding giant Burton have been collaborating on a project [...]

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