Trolltech's Qtopia Greenphone Shown at CES

Linux Development Mobile Phone Demonstrated at Showstoppers

Trolltech will be demonstrating its Qtopia Greenphone, device at Showstoppers, an invitation only media event during CES 2007 in Las Vegas. This event is the only venue where Greenphone will be available exclusively to the media at CES for hands-on demonstrations.

Qtopia Greenphone, an open Linux mobile device for application developers, aims to bring to mobile phones the customization and choice we now have on our PCs. The native software of today's mobile phones, including the address book, dialing function and user interface is currently closed to the user. This one size fit all approach is no longer appropriate in a world where choice and freedom to customize is demanded by consumers. The ability to offer choice to consumers is also a way for telecom operators to differentiate their offerings.

Qtopia Greenphone is offered as part of a complete software development kit (SDK). Greenphone enables application developers to utilize communication functions and features found in today's sophisticated smartphones in developing their own innovative applications in addition to modifying the existing applications Trolltech provides.

"Trolltech is doing an admirable job trying to jumpstart the market for their software"¦ they have to get phones in the hands of developers who will write apps for the phone. Those apps will then increase the value proposition for their toolkit which will attract the attention of the big hardware manufacturers." - John Lombardo, LinuxDevices.com - Trolltech.