Trolltech Sells Out of Qtopia Greenphones, Migrates Community to New Platform.First Major Open Phone Initiative Galvanized gal·va·nize tr.v. gal·va·nized, gal·va·niz·ing, gal·va·niz·es 1. To stimulate or shock with an electric current. 2. Industry, Engaged Developers and Stimulated Consumer Demand for Reprogrammable Phones OSLO, Norway -- Trolltech[R] today announced that it has sold its entire inventory of Qtopia[R] Greenphones, the world's first open phone built by the company to drive developer and operator interest. Trolltech, having accomplished its mission and committed to its roots as a software company, will not order additional units and will work closely with developers to migrate them to new, compatible reference platforms that have since been introduced to the market. As an open, Linux-based mobile phone, Qtopia Greenphone was a project initiated by Trolltech to stimulate open development of mobile phones and to serve as an industry catalyst for the open phone movement. The pioneering initiative resulted in the creation of the first platform for open phones and, in turn, provided the developer community and mobile phone operators a platform on which to test and advance the creation and demonstration of new mobile technology services to foster mobile phone innovation. "At Vodafone Betavine we launched a web portal See portal. to interact with the developer community, said Stephen Wolak, on the Vodafone Betavine Team. "Greenphone was an innovative programme that responded well to open source developers, and mobile application experimentation. At Vodafone Betavine we believe there is a growing community and developer interest in open platform devices, Greenphone has certainly helped in the visibility of this growing trend. "Going forward, Vodafone Betavine hopes to be stimulating the development and growing awareness of the Open Source community by housing their innovative work, and offering open API's on the portal." Trolltech will continue to work with a number of device manufacturers to make Qtopia Phone Edition Qtopia Phone Edition is a Linux-based operating system for smartphones. The first smartphone to support it, was the Qtopia Greenphone, by Trolltech. , the popular application platform for Linux-based mobile phones, available to further leverage the innovative work the community has already done on the Greenphone. Since the introduction of Greenphone, Trolltech has given open source developers and commercial organizations the tools to create innovative, inspiring applications and services. "The success of Greenphone is due in large part to the void it filled in the market by providing an open phone platform that could be used for experimentation and to build innovate applications," said Benoit Schillings Benoit Schillings, currently the chief technology officer at TrollTech[1], is famous for being one of the lead developers of the BeOS operating system and is a noted amateur astronomer. Schillings' association with Be Inc. , Trolltech CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. . "While we have sold out our inventory of Greenphones, we continue to work with other hardware manufacturers which have open devices on the market. Our community now has a choice of phone platforms to work with and we aim to support additional platforms in the future." Trolltech will continue to support the Qtopia Greenphone community with new software releases in the coming months. In addition, community developers and organizations looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. phone hardware on which to develop Qtopia applications, Trolltech recommends the Neo1973 from FIC FIC First International Computer FIC Fogarty International Center (John E. Fogarty International Center for Advanced Study in the Health Sciences; National Institutes of Health) FIC Fellowship for Intentional Community and OpenMoko. Trolltech is also currently working on support for additional devices and hopes to announce support for these devices in the coming weeks. About Trolltech Trolltech[R] creates application development platforms for desktop and mobile device innovation. Trolltech's software increases the appeal of our customer's desktop applications and devices while reducing their risks and software development costs. Trolltech's technologies accelerate the evolution of software by unleashing the creative power of the developer. Trolltech software is the foundation for thousands of leading products worldwide, many from Global 2000 companies. Trolltech is a second-generation open source company, with a dual licensing business model that supports open source values and methodology in a profitable, sustainable business. The company is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange Oslo Stock Exchange An exchange founded in 1819 and trading stocks, bonds, and stock options that is considered the options market of Norway. under the ticker symbol Ticker Symbol An arrangement of characters (usually letters) representing a particular security listed on an exchange or otherwise traded publicly. When a company issues securities to the public marketplace, it selects an available ticker symbol for its securities which investors TROLL troll (trōl), in Scandinavian folklore, dwarfish or gigantic creature of caves and hills. Variously friendly or malicious, trolls toiled as smiths. The mountain king in Ibsen's Peer Gynt is a troll. 1. . For more information about Trolltech, please visit http://www.trolltech.com. Trolltech, Qt and Qtopia are registered trademarks of Trolltech ASA Asa (ā`sə), in the Bible, king of Judah, son and successor of Abijah. He was a good king, zealous in his extirpation of idols. 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