ZTE Using Trolltech Applications for Linux Smartphone

Chinese handset vendor, ZTE has selected Trolltech's Qtopia Phone Edition application platform and user interface for its Linux-based mobile phone, the ZTE U980. The U980 is ZTE's mobile phone platform created for China's national 3G standard TD-SCDMA. Smartphones based on this platform will be supplied through China Mobile and sold into the market.

The ZTE U980 is also claimed to be the first dual-mode, dual-standby intelligent handset supporting both TD-SCDMA and EDGE.

To facilitate 3G smartphone development ZTE created the U980 platform to be one of the smartphone solutions used to create 3G phones. ZTE has long experience with Qtopia Phone Edition and Linux, having already released two Qtopia smartphones (the e3 and e700) in the Chinese market.

"Qtopia offers the advantage of a comprehensive development platform while being very flexible," said Luo Zhong Sheng, Ph. D, General Manager, TD-SCDMA Product Line, Handsets Division of ZTE. "We hope to leverage both advantages when building our internal TD-SCDMA mobile phone platform, U980. It will enable us to create new and complex devices quickly and efficiently while supporting the Chinese 3G standard."

Posted to the site on 17th December 2007