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Title: Qtopia Phone
Post by: nilch on March 26, 2005, 04:07:10 pm

at  http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS7891845778.html (http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS7891845778.html)

So here is a glimpse of one Qtopia phone (out of the 20's or so that Trolltech mentioned will be out this year)
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Wonder if it will be available for the US markets any time soon ?

Title: Qtopia Phone
Post by: Mickeyl on March 26, 2005, 06:59:33 pm

Nice. A bit chunky though.

Title: Qtopia Phone
Post by: guylhem on March 27, 2005, 11:51:54 am

Quite large. No bluetooth or wifi. No option to add either one since there's no compact flash. A small qvga screen. 64 Mb flash/ram.

So I think I'll pass unless it cost around Eur 300. It may not even work on european GSM networks :-(((

It needs at least bluetooth/wifi if there's no cf.

Title: Qtopia Phone
Post by: nilch on March 28, 2005, 03:03:59 pm

True the phone is a bit bulky (from looks) and I would rather have a simpler smaller phone (with Qtopia).

So heres the question to lpotter (Trolltech) - is this (and is any other) phone scheduled for a US release on the GSM network any time soon ?

I have been thinking of updating my current phone, so maybe a sneek peek might help me in making up my mind.  

Title: Qtopia Phone
Post by: lpotter on March 28, 2005, 10:35:25 pm

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So heres the question to lpotter (Trolltech) - is this (and is any other) phone scheduled for a US release on the GSM network any time soon ?

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none for  US release soon. US is the last place that adopts new technologies, usually. Look at china for the first Qtopia phones.

Title: Qtopia Phone
Post by: ev1l on March 29, 2005, 08:33:17 am

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none for  US release soon. US is the last place that adopts new technologies, usually. Look at china for the first Qtopia phones.
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Anything that would ressemble a Zaurus + GSM in specs?

Title: Qtopia Phone
Post by: nilch on June 30, 2005, 12:03:00 pm

So there is another Linux based phone based on Qtopia phone edition (http://linuxdevices.com/articles/AT6230413091.html) in  - where else but Asia, China.

Looks much nicer than the Samsung one - with swivel screen and with Opera.

When will USA get the phones that Asia already has - like Motorola Linux phones and Qtopia phones ?

Title: Qtopia Phone
Post by: ev1l on July 03, 2005, 08:16:05 am

If you'd ever tried a Linux phone and compared it to a Treo, you'd understand why they won't bother bringing them West. Zautrix just bought a Linux Moto phone running Qtopia, and it's a true GUI disaster.

Title: Qtopia Phone
Post by: zautrix on July 03, 2005, 08:26:42 am

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If you'd ever tried a Linux phone and compared it to a Treo, you'd understand why they won't bother bringing them West. Zautrix just bought a Linux Moto phone running Qtopia, and it's a true GUI disaster.
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1.)
Motorola is not running Qtopia (phone) on their phones.
They haved developed their own phone environment based on Qt/embedded.

2.)
I like that Motorola phone environment GUI very much and I consider it as an almost perfect phone GUI for myself.
I.e. I would buy in every case a phone with such a GUI again.

z.