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Trolltech GPLs Qtopia Phone Edition

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the all-the-cool-kids-are-doing-it dept.

Provataki writes "Trolltech has announced that they are releasing the new version of Qtopia Phone Edition under the GPL along with a port on the FIC Neo1973 smartphone. Trolltech also continues to support Greenphone as a reference platform for mobile development within the company and through its partners. Benoit Schillings, CTO of Trolltech (also of BeOS fame as one of the original Be, Inc. engineers) commented on the news."

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  1. QTopia vs OpenMoko by Aladrin · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So... At this point, QTopia runs on several phones while OpenMoko only runs on the one they designed. I have to say, I've been planning to buy a neo9173 for a while now, but I'm starting to seriously thinking about re-flashing it with QTopia or just buying a green phone with QTopia. In terms of how many apps will be ported to it, I think QTopia already has a huge advantage since it works on multiple phones already.

    As I stated in the other news topic, I want a phone that has Skype and will let me answer with Skype or via cell tower when both ring at once. I use Grand Central to ring both numbers at the same time, and I'd rather have just a single phone to do it with. I think QTopia is likely to offer that more quickly than OpenMoko.

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    1. Re:QTopia vs OpenMoko by AVee · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Why Skype? You're buying an opensource phone, you want choice when it comes to who delivers you calls to you, yet you choose to use a closed source VOIP provider?
      Seems kind of strange to me. I can understand what you want, I want functionality like that, but I want it useing standard open SIP. Otherwise your just trading one lock-in for the other.

  2. GPLv2 by samkass · · Score: 3, Informative

    For those too lazy to go read the press release, it's GPLv2, not GPLv3.

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  3. Re:I'm curious... by richlv · · Score: 3, Informative

    hmm. actually, the device the article is about - Neo1973 - is pretty much open.
    http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo1973_Hardware

    few things are closed for quite valid reasons, but hopefully with time this will have a chance to improve.

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