[Qt-interest] Which phones are supported by Qt?

[Harri Pasanen]

On Wednesday, September 29, 2010 01:52:09 pm Atlant Schmidt wrote:
> NoRulez:
> 
>   You also need to ask the question the other
>   way around: Which phone vendors support *THIRD-
>   PARTY* applications written using Qt and *UPON
>   WHICH MODELS* do they support this?
> 
>   For example, for Nokia, I believe the current
>   answer is "No models of Nokia phones currently
>   officially support third-party applications
>   written using Qt". Only one Nokia phone (the
>   N8) even supports a Nokia-written application
>   (the new Qt Web RunTime) written using Qt and
>   that phone hasn't shipped yet.
> 

Ovi store currently supports Qt for N97 mini,  X6, E72 for Symbian and N900 
(Maemo).

All those are shipping models, and third parties can make commercial apps for 
them to be sold at Nokia's Ovi store.

Technically a much wider base of phones is supported, see:
http://wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.php/Nokia_Smart_Installer_for_Symbian

It's exclusively Nokia though.

>   Qt-based applications can probably be installed
>   on many Nokia phones but because of the limitations
>   in RAM and C: drive (NOR flash memory) size and
>   the lack of any hardware accelerated graphics and
>   relatively anemic CPUs, the apps have to be very
>   carefully crafted to run even minimally well; that's
>   probably why Nokia has been so reluctant to offer
>   official support on platforms that, on casual in-
>   section seem like they ought to be "Qt-capable"
>   such as the N97, N97 mini, and the 5800 eXpress
>   Music and the X6.

Depends a bit what you are trying to achieve.   For most of my stuff the 
performance is perfectly adequate, and I'm testing mainly on 5800.
Also your list is wrong, both N97 mini and X6 are supported, and the rest work 
fine as well, just wont be supported at Ovi store.

Announced devices that are not yet shipping are N8, C7, C6-01 and E7 which all 
will support Qt apps.


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Grego
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