Nokia’s been violence the Qt warpath for years after purchasing a developer framework from Trolltech behind in January of 2008. In fact, Nokia only made the switch to Qt exclusively behind in October in the pointer of the harsh support for a one growth environment. That, like all previous Nokia strategies, is in for a large shift today. While Qt will continue upon as a development horizon for Symbian and MeeGo, Microsoft will yield the gratis Windows Phone Developer Tools (Visual Studio 2010, Expression, Silverlight and the XNA Framework) to developers interested in developing for Nokia Windows Phones (get used to that word while providing “superintendence” to anybody wishing to port their apps to WP7. In alternative difference, Qt will not be blending for Windows Phone 7 APIs. Full minute after the break to what we suppose is a very discontented and formerly constant Nokia developer village. Show full PR textLetter to Developers about Today’s News
jasonblack | 11 February, 2011 10:05

Nokia and Microsoft today announced plans to form the broad vital partnership that would combine the interrelated strengths as well as imagination to create a brand new global mobile ecosystem, a single we believe would have all a elements indispensable to fuel creation – together with poke, place, advertising as well as sparkling brand new inclination.

As part of this, Nokia intentions to adopt Windows Phone as the primary smartphone plan, assisting drive a future of the platform. This has not been a decision taken lightly by Nokia and we longed for to share a little of the key points with the developer village.

Nokia as well as Microsoft together

The Nokia-Microsoft ecosystem would target to deliver differentiated and innovative products as well as have unrivalled scale, product extent, geographical reach, as well as brand identity. With Windows Phone as the primary smartphone height, we would help drive the future of the platform by leveraging the imagination in hardware optimization, program customization, language await as well as scale.

Microsoft would have available the existent gratis Windows Phone Developer Tools; Visual Studio 2010, Expression, Silverlight as well as the XNA Framework to developers. Together, we will provide superintendence for developers wishing to port their applications to Windows Phone.

Nokia as well as Microsoft would additionally combine services resources to drive creation. Nokia’s Ovi Maps, for example, would be during a heart of pass Microsoft resources like Bing as well as AdCenter, as well as Nokia’s application as well as calm store would be integrated with Microsoft Marketplace for Nokia Windows Phones, to deliver a great singular commerce knowledge for developers as well as consumers alike.

The Qt ecosystem

Qt will continue to be a development framework for Symbian and Nokia will use Symbian for serve inclination; stability to rise vital applications in Qt for Symbian height and encouraging application developers to do the same. With 200 million users worldwide and Nokia planning to sell around 150 million some-more Symbian inclination, Symbian still offers unparalleled geographical scale for developers.

Extending the scope of Qt further will be our first MeeGo-related open source device, that we plan to ship later this year. Though our intentions for MeeGo have been blending in light of our planned partnership with Microsoft, which device will be compatible with applications developed within the Qt framework as well as so give Qt developers the further device to aim.

Nokia Mobile Phones

Nokia Mobile Phones will drive Nokia’s “web for a next billion” plan, leveraging Nokia’s creation as well as strength in growth markets to connect a next billion people as well as move them affordable access to a Internet and applications. This represents the serve event for developers. Nokia will leverage the substitute browser technology upon mobile phones, as good as continuing to enhance Java await and SDKs, with developers as well as publishers able to broach their applications to consumers by a Nokia store.

Supporting the developers

As partial of the shift in Nokia’s classification voiced currently, a Services and Developer Experiences (SDX) unit will be obliged for Nokia’s global assistance portfolio, developer offering, developer village relations, as well as integration of partner assistance offering. Forum Nokia will be partial of that section and will continue to support developers for Symbian smartphones as well as Series 40 mobile phones.

We will make firm the ability to support developers both globally as well as in internal markets, ensuring which we can work with you wherever you have been to move your ultimate applications to our store and help you precedence the large-scale revenue opportunity with Symbian as well as Series 40.

For Nokia Windows Phones, Microsoft would yield tools for application developers to simply and fast precedence Nokia’s marketplace reach. The formation of Microsoft Marketplace as well as Nokia’s calm as well as application store would yield scalable infrastructure as well as constrained consumer engagement for applications for Nokia Windows Phones.

The combined stores would suggest unparalleled placement. The Ovi Store already delivers content in 190 countries, with internal specific content in 90 of those. We are now seeing 4 million downloads the day, with 300,000 users signing up everyday and 400,000 developers right away operative upon applications for Nokia upon Symbian. In further to offering user billing with 103 operators in 32 countries, we devise to await a widest range of commercial operation models for the publishers and developers.

We plan to have it easy and profitable for all developers to thrive in the ecosystem, receiving value of a enablers (API’s) offering by ourselves, Microsoft as well as other partners – together with location, poke, monetization and promotion.

What’s next?

As we pronounced, this proclamation is about the intentions to work with Microsoft as well as the formulation will goon. Our target is to keep you informed as plans rise, through our Forum Nokia as well as Ovi Publish websites, newsletters and in chairman. In the meantime, we wish to assistance you maximize the existent business opportunity, building for a about 50 million Qt capable Symbian smartphones already in use and approximately 150 million more that we aim to sell, as good as hundreds of millions of Nokia mobile phones.

We consider this is starting to be an exciting journey as well as look brazen to having you with us!

Purnima Kochikar

Head of Forum Nokia & Developer Community

Via Engadget