Tour of Qt stand at MWC - Qt everywhere
Published by Rafe Blandford at 14:14 GMT, March 17th 2010
Our latest MWC video is a tour around the Qt stand, looking at some of the Qt-enabled devices - from phones to printers and appliances. Mobile developers and users have been hearing more and more about Qt in the last 18 months. It is the future application framework for both Symbian and MeeGo (Nokia's two open platforms going forward). However, as this video demonstrates, Qt is already a well established technology and the 'Qt everywhere' slogan has already been realised.
This videos shows the amazing diversity of devices that are Qt enabled. This is important because it shows that Qt is a mature and tested technology, is being used in multiple industries and multiple devices and that there are many existing Qt developers out there. More than anything it is a powerful demonstration of the cross platform promise of Qt.
Key points
- As 'live' from the show floor at Mobile World Congress; Daniel Kihlberg (Director, Qt sales marketing and services) shows off some of the Qt-enabled device on the stand. With Qt, 'you can write the code once and deploy it on many different operating systems'.
- Demo of Symbian and Windows Mobile running the same code base for a music service application (Nokia, HTC and Sony Ericsson).
- Demo of a Qt application (a shopping list app) running on Nokia N900 (Maemo), Nokia 5800 (Symbian^1), Samsung i8910, N85 (S60 3rd Edition), HTC HD2 (Windows Mobile), Motorola A1200 (Linux) - all from the same code base.
- Other Qt devices (Qt Everywhere) - photo frame, Garmin Navigation (Nuiviphone), Sony Mylo, Recipe Machine, Skype Phone appliance and more.
- Qt becoming a standard in the car industry - demo of Ovi Maps - and how there may be multiple screen in the car (e.g. back seat).
- View of Qt-enabled set top box (home media centres etc.) Learnings from one area can be applied to others - i.e. how set top boxes might influence future mobile experiences. View of Qt-powered HP printer that can access websites and print out information directly from the printer (e.g. print out Google Calendar). View of IP-enabled telephone powered by Qt.
- Qt is chipset agnostic (though you will have to recompile, from same code, for different chip sets).
Tour of the Qt stand at Mobile World Congress with Daniel Kihlberg of Qt
Developers can get all the information they need from qt.nokia.com. Thanks to the Qt stand team for their assistance in creating this video.
Categories: Software, Developer, Industry, Editorial Thoughts, Events
Platforms: General, S60 3rd Edition, S60 5th Edition, MeeGo
News Discussion
Unregistered
WHOA! I smell hype here!
The single code base across multiple platforms only applies to the V of the MVC. Don't get so carried away!
Still very exciting though.
The single code base across multiple platforms only applies to the V of the MVC. Don't get so carried away!
Still very exciting though.
hary536
It seemed to me that the marketing person of Qt was not very good at marketing and explaining the benefits of Qt. Infact Rafe (?) did much better than him in marketing. :)
I think Nokia needs to hire better marketing people.
I think Nokia needs to hire better marketing people.
Rafe
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Originally Posted by Unregistered
WHOA! I smell hype here!
The single code base across multiple platforms only applies to the V of the MVC. Don't get so carried away! Still very exciting though. |
What I wanted to show off was the existing range of Qt devices :)
Jimmy1
Lots of luck to 'em, but I think it's going to be an uphill struggle trying to get developers onboard the dual platform strategy, even with Qt.
The advantage Nokia has, if they choose to go that way, is to figuratively throw giant bags of money developers' way and see what happens.
The advantage Nokia has, if they choose to go that way, is to figuratively throw giant bags of money developers' way and see what happens.
hisyamhalim
I sense deja vu, this write once run everywhere sounds like what Sun promised with J2ME. The Qt APIs are far from complete yet, the functionalities are way less than what Symbian C++ or even J2ME can offer.
The Qt Roadmap http://qt.nokia.com/developer/qt-roadmap shows that basic features such as Contact, Location, Network are still being developed.
I'm not sure whether Qt is going to support more low level stuff like background processing & telephony.
What worries me is that Nokia intends to sever support for Symbian C++ by Symbian ^4 which is gonna happen by next year (Symbian ^3 devices coming out this year). I'm not sure Qt would be able to replicate ALL the things that Symbian C++ can do by then. If not, then Nokia is just shooting themselves in the foot by having cool phones with pretty UI but limited functionalities.
The Qt Roadmap http://qt.nokia.com/developer/qt-roadmap shows that basic features such as Contact, Location, Network are still being developed.
I'm not sure whether Qt is going to support more low level stuff like background processing & telephony.
What worries me is that Nokia intends to sever support for Symbian C++ by Symbian ^4 which is gonna happen by next year (Symbian ^3 devices coming out this year). I'm not sure Qt would be able to replicate ALL the things that Symbian C++ can do by then. If not, then Nokia is just shooting themselves in the foot by having cool phones with pretty UI but limited functionalities.
Unregistered
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Originally Posted by hisyamhalim
I'm not sure Qt would be able to replicate ALL the things that Symbian C++ can do by then. If not, then Nokia is just shooting themselves in the foot by having cool phones with pretty UI but limited functionalities.
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QT is a UI toolkit and it would be a big jump for it to cover the lower level functionality in the Symbian SDKs. But it was always Avkon that was the problem for many people and now this sets them free.
Rafe
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Originally Posted by hisyamhalim
What worries me is that Nokia intends to sever support for Symbian C++ by Symbian ^4 which is gonna happen by next year (Symbian ^3 devices coming out this year). I'm not sure Qt would be able to replicate ALL the things that Symbian C++ can do by then. If not, then Nokia is just shooting themselves in the foot by having cool phones with pretty UI but limited functionalities.
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What's really happening is Qt is replacing the AVKON part of C++, but you also get all the other Qt functionality too.