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btw, qtopia is now named qt extended - http://qtopia.net/.
i liked qtopia name better - shorter, easier to remember, more distinct...

There are already a few Linux phones out there..

see:
http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS9996556326.html

You can even test drive Qtopia via a LiveCD.

Download here (114MByte):
http://qtopia.net/iso/qtopia-4.1.1-2006_04-20_1114 .iso

Simon.

You just didn't wait long enough. http://www.qtopia.net/modules/users/downloads.php

Trolltech is just too kind:

http://www.qtopia.net/modules/xoopsfaq/index.php?c at_id=4

Gtk: Although Gtk is on Windows as well as X, Qt has a far better cross platform implementation. Qt is written in C++, instead of C, has a company standing behind it, and needs much less code to write the same app.

How about mentioning GTK is about as stable as a one-legged table during a 9.0 earthquake?

GTK apps get a NULL pointer exception and abort exceedingly often. What point is exception handling if you just abort? Might as well just deref the NULL pointer and segfault - at least one can use a debugger. And it doesn't appear GTK programs try to save state or even clean up after themselves when they exception abort.

KDE only crashes on me when Xorg kills my computer or Linux's wonderful memory management causes an out of memory error and kernel killing spree - so when Firefox memory leaks - KDE pieces and various daemons get killed too - can't blame Qt or KDE for that.

Also, doesn't Gtk shoehorn C++ like features into C, making for a God awful mess? The disadvantages of C++ without the advantages. Everyone has a C++ compiler available - g++ is free and on all platforms (well at least those supported by gcc - which is anything you'd care about).

Gnome needs to just stop competing against KDE and allow their work to be folded into KDE.

Gnome said it was about the licensing, and that has been resolved for how long now? How many years?

Linux needs a standard desktop - user's don't want to be forced to choose - app writers don't want to have to choose and no matter what - lose some customers - and Gnome is bleeding away resources that could go to KDE.

From here:

Haavard Nord, Trolltech's CEO, and Eirik Eng, Trolltech's President, had been working together with various cross-platform GUI tools back in 1991. We were both very disappointed in their quality and were sure we could do it much better. Haavard went on to write his Masters thesis on GUI design, while I wrote a C++ GUI toolkit for a Norwegian company. In 1993 he called me up and suggested that we should join forces and use our experience in GUI design to write the toolkit that would be the king of toolkits. We had no customers, no funding and a lot of enthusiasm. Luckily we were both married to wives who had full-time jobs. We used some savings to rent a small office and hacked away for a year while our wives fed and cared for us.

Personally, I find the entire thing rather neat and almost romantic. If you told your spouse/sig. other "I'm gonna go work on something and make absolutely no money for a year and you're going to support me...do you mind?" (s)he'd probably say something along the lines of "hell no" or go packing. The company name comes from a dream one of the cofounders had about their wife as well.

I dunno. I don't see that many couples that're close or stable enough to do that.

There's more important things "chicks" can have than a "hot" body. Like...helping you realize your dreams?

http://www.qtopia.net/modules/xoopsfaq/index.php?c at_id=4#13

Roms based on openzaurus with an updated qtopia-2.1.1, that will sync with Linux, Mac OSX and Windows are available for the sl6000, as well as other Zaurus including the a300, from Trolltech's new Qtopia Community web site:
http://www.qtopia.net