QT 4.6 on Nokia 5800 – The Future of things to come

Nokia acquired cross platform developer QT a while ago and now is reaping the benefits by porting QT to all it’s major devices from S60v3 and S60v5 to upcoming Maemo 5 .  To demonstrate the power of QT Nokia has released a QT 4.6 Demo for S60v3 and S60v5 phones which truly bring out the potential of these phones especially S60v5 including Nokia 5800 XM , N 97 etc by adding Kinetic scrolling and Fluid Launcher ( Same like Apple iPhone Coverflow ) to the phones .

The QT6 is not only a pretty face , it also acts as a powerful Application platform which can run a mulitude of application and has the potential of replacing the current standby screen on Nokia Phones .

The demo of QT 4.6 comes in a 12mb package-  downloadable from here ( http://qt.nokia.com/phonedemos ) and includes the basic QT Application by the name of Fluid Launcher , QT Demos consisting of 13 Applications including Desktop  the App launcher and also QT Examples with 7 Demos , I cannot differentiate between the two as they all are Apps and why Nokia has divided them in two folders , Nokia knows best .

The installation takes it’s time installing a number of application to support QT and thankfully could be installed on the memory card , given the current sorry state of user available Phone memory  it’s a good option to be able to install on Memory card.  The phone should be restarted after installing of QT6 , may not be necessary but it Qt6 started functioning properly after the restart .

• The applications are general for the Demo including
• Media Player ,
• SVG Viewer ,
• Fridge Magnet to move around selected text ,
• Kinetic Scrolling example ,
• open Map project supporting limited cities ,
• DrillDown something like Wikipedia for cities ,
• FTP client ,
• Anomaly Browser -   connects to Nokia Browser
• Ray Casting -  game like Wolfenstein circa 1990  without the character , monster or Guns
• Flight Info With limited functionality
• Weather Info- again with limited functionality

to name a few . The applications are compatible with accelerometer , supports Auto Rotate and work in both Portrait and Landscape mode but for some one mode is better than other .

The Eye candy below gives a complete pic of what QT on 5800 is , I’m working on a video and will post later in the day

The demo shows the shape of things to come , if QT by  Nokia can accomplish so much in a demo  , imagine what it will be capable to do once it’s full fledge launched and as Nokia has made it’s SDK available for developers free of cost , a large number of useful applications are soon to be expected . 

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