Qtopia Phone

[nilch]

at  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 ?

[Mickeyl]

Nice. A bit chunky though.

[guylhem]

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.

[nilch]

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.  

[lpotter]

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.

[ev1l]

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?

[nilch]

So there is another Linux based phone based on Qtopia phone edition 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 ?

[ev1l]

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.

[zautrix]

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.