Re: MeeGo Dead: Where does Kontact Mobile go?

Alexander Harrowell <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.users.pim
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I was in the Intel dev day at Mobile World Congress yesterday and I saw Paul Ottelini personally commit them to supporting MG and by extension Qt. Quote: "we'll do whatever it takes to make this float".
 

Although they do pronounce it "q-tee" rather than "cute", which some consider noncanonical:-)

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>   1.  MeeGo Dead: Where does Kontact Mobile go? (Johannes Graumann)
>   2. Re: MeeGo Dead: Where does Kontact Mobile go? (Anne Wilson)
>   3. Re: MeeGo Dead: Where does Kontact Mobile go? (Till Adam)
>Hi,
>
>With MeeGo arguably all but abandoned by Nokia, is there any strategy
>in 
>place for the fledgling mobile version of kontact/KDE-PIM? Having my 
>favorite tool available on a mobile device was one of the major reasons
>to 
>wait/hope for MeeGo ...
>
>Joh
>
>
>On Wednesday 16 February 2011 18:57:38 Johannes Graumann wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> With MeeGo arguably all but abandoned by Nokia, is there any strategy
>in
>> place for the fledgling mobile version of kontact/KDE-PIM? Having my
>> favorite tool available on a mobile device was one of the major
>reasons to
>> wait/hope for MeeGo ...
>> 
>I think you are jumping the gun.  MeeGo may be dead - or it may not. 
>At this 
>stage we don't know.  But steps are being taken to find out exactly
>what the 
>situation is.  This has blown up very suddenly, and it won't be
>resolved as 
>quickly as that.
>
>Anne
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>On Wednesday 16 February 2011 21:57:38 Johannes Graumann wrote:
>
>> With MeeGo arguably all but abandoned by Nokia, is there any strategy
>in
>> place for the fledgling mobile version of kontact/KDE-PIM? Having my
>> favorite tool available on a mobile device was one of the major
>reasons to
>> wait/hope for MeeGo ...
>
>Kontact can run anywhere that Qt can run, and Kontact Touch anywhere
>that QML 
>goes. So far that's Maemo, MeeGo and Windows CE, but also regular
>Windows or 
>Linux on Netbooks, for example. With Qt and QML going to new platforms,
>such 
>as Android, those of us who work on Kontact Touch are curious to see
>how it 
>might work there, for example. Anyone with an Android phone, an SDK and
>some 
>hacking time up for the challenge? Should be very doable. :)
>
>Till
>
>
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