“Trolltech announced today that more than fifty companies are
currently developing or shipping Linux-based devices using its
Qtopia graphical application platform software, including more than
twenty mobile phones. These successes signal ‘a surge in the market
for handsets built on the popular open source Linux operating
system,’ the company says.“‘We think that 2005 is going to be a real breakout year for
Linux on cellphones,’ Trolltech CEO Haavard Nord told
LinuxDevices.com. ‘There seems to be a huge interest in Linux.
Linux is just now getting mature for the market…”