Nokia took over Trolltech ASA in 2008 and renamed it to Qt Development Frameworks. We already know about Java which enables applications to run platform independent. Qt is a similar cross platform software. Nokia is set to target 80 million devices with Nokia Qt 4.6.0. This new framework for Symbian devices will provide better UI designs and applications.

To give the Nokia Symbian users a preview of what Qt is capable of, they have released a demo app for Nokia S60 5^th Edition device. You can download the same here. The demo application is called Fluidlauncher. It demonstrates the kinetic scrolling and drill down features among other spectacular features.

Download the demo sis file and go on through accepting all the options. You may get some warnings saying that some of the components are missing, ignore them and continue with the installation. After the installation completes, launch the app and you can browse the various demo modules which showcase the different aspects of the Qt framework.

It was really amazing to see such features being implemented in future, however, there is one question that emerges, is Nokia 5800 designed to support such features ?

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