Trolltech releases Qtopia 2.1

[lpotter]

Dear All,


Trolltech yesterday (November 9, 2004 noon Oslo time) announced the
release of Qtopia 2.1.

New features in Qtopia 2.1 include touch-screen phone support, full
handwriting input and new phone themes. Qtopia 2.1 allows the
development of customized, full-featured Linux-based mobile
devices. With the new touch-screen functionality, Qtopia 2.1 supports
the two primary types of input, touch-screen and key-based, with one
software package.

Qtopia version 2.1 extends Qtopia's flexibility with significant new
functionality including:

- Touch-screen phone support: Qtopia Phone now includes support for
  touchscreen-based input, in addition to the key-based operation
  already supported.

- Full-screen handwriting recognition: Qtopia PDA and Qtopia Phone now
  include customizable full-screen handwriting recognition to increase
  input flexibility.

- Enhanced theming: Qtopia Phone has a powerful theming engine, allowing
  the user interface to be customized and personalized.

- Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS): MMS is now a part of Qtopia
  Phone. It allows users to create and view MMS messages with images,
  text and audio content.

- GPRS: Qtopia Phone now supports the General Packet Radio Standard
  (GPRS).

- Reduced Minimum Flash Requirements: new build options enables even
  smaller distributions of Qtopia on devices.

- Over the air configuration: Qtopia provides support for configuration
  of the phone over the air.

For a complete list of Qtopia 2.1 features, please see

        http://doc.trolltech.com/qtopia2.1/html/release-2.1.0.html.

For the more latest information about Qtopia 2.1 including updated
product documentation, please visit:

        http://doc.trolltech.com/qtopia2.1/html/index.html

as well as updated product marketing pages on:

http://www.trolltech.com/products/qtopia/index.html

For the press release of Qtopia 2.1, please see

        http://www.trolltech.com/newsroom/press.html.

Along with the Qtopia 2.1 press release, we also published press
releases about Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Co., Ltd. using
Qtopia Phone and about Qt/Embedded powering two new Motorola handsets
(the Motorola E680 and A780). More details here:

        http://www.trolltech.com/newsroom/press.html


Thank you,
The Trolltech Team


*Additional note: Qtopia 2.1 pda will be released under the GPL soon. Stay tuned....

[zenyatta]

So apart from the full-screen handwriting recognition, all improvements go to Qtopia Phone, right? Not much news then for us I think. Still, good luck to you guys with this release, hope you score more of the big boys like Motorola...

z.

[lpotter]

Improvements were made to Qtopia PDA. The last release of PDA was version 1.7.1.

[cascadefx]

How would one go about updating a zaurus 5600 with the new qtopia version.?

[lpotter]

Wait patiently for a week or so...

[ev1l]

Any hope of using the phone functions with QT/embedded and something like this??
Good to hear you'll have ROM images available for the existing devices.