Trolltech and Teleca Enter Partnership

Trolltech and mobile phone vendor Teleca announced strategic partnership for accelerating Linux-based mobile phone growth. Teleca and Trolltech will work together to create a joint reference design, based on Trolltech's Qtopia graphics framework and Teleca's Obigo applications suite, which includes products for browsing, messaging, content management, media playback and digital rights management.

"This partnership reinforces out ability to meet the increasing need of handset manufacturers for customization and to address the growing number of opportunities in the mobile phone market," said Haavard Nord, Trolltech's CEO. "The integration of Teleca's Obigo suite and Qtopia offer handset manufacturers a way to bring products to market faster and more cost-effectively."

Teleca is a "R&D-focused developer and integrator of software." It has more than 3,000 employees, and operations in 16 countries. Beside its Obigo suite, the company offers services that include analysis, integration, customization, certification and interoperability testing. It claims to have shipped about 300 million phones worldwide.

Teleca and Trolltech will be present at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona on 13-16 February.