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Opportunities for Developing for Nokia Smartphones
jasonblack | 14 February, 2011 18:50
We’ve just finished the Nokia presentations at our Developer Day, part of the App Planet activities at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. We had a full house of developers interested in hearing more about our announcement from last week and, together with Rich Green, Nokia CTO; Purnima Kochikar, head of Forum Nokia; and Bryan Biniak, head of Ovi Publish, I spoke about the news and its implications for our developers.
One of the questions asked in the room was, “If I want to start developing for Nokia devices today, should I develop for Windows Phone or for Symbian/MeeGo with Qt?”
It’s a good question, and we appreciate the news from last week may have caused some confusion. So here’s our answer: We recommend that you start with Qt today, for the maximum immediate business opportunity on Nokia smartphones. Our CEO Stephen Elop has said that we expect volume sales of Nokia Windows Phone products in 2012. Before then, developers have an immediate opportunity to address our installed base of around 75 million Symbian devices which are Qt capable, plus the approximately 150 million more Symbian devices that we plan to sell, as well as the upcoming device from our MeeGo program. This opportunity will continue even after Nokia Windows Phone shipments begin.
As the Nokia device portfolio shifts to Windows Phone we expect the developer opportunity for Nokia Windows Phones to grow, and we will work with Microsoft to help developers with extending their applications from Symbian and MeeGo to that platform as well. In the meantime, we see the business opportunity for developers targeting Nokia smartphones is for Symbian (and MeeGo) using Qt. Please stay tuned for more news as our planning with Microsoft continues.
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srikanthsombhatla | 14/02/2011, 19:11
Hey buddy jasonblack ,
Please change this url blogpost title, it is reading "opps-for-developing-for-nokia-smartphones" - reflecting the situation though. Try to modify it before more comedy happens
We are talking about Opportunities, now and in the future
jasonblack | 14/02/2011, 19:21
@srikanthsombhatla - this post was provided on behalf of a Nokia VP, as you may have noticed.
We're trying to be responsive and to provide information about the latest news as quickly as we can. We hope you will trust that we do have the best interest of our developer community at heart.
Thank you. - jason
transitioning
lpotter | 14/02/2011, 20:36
I know of a great way to easily transition current Symbian developers to WP7.... Port Qt to WP7
Re: We are talking about Opportunities, now and in the future
quarkos | 15/02/2011, 13:42
"... we do have the best interest of our developer community at heart."
Who do you mean with "we"? It clearly doesn't include the CEO of Nokia.
Porting QT to WP7 is definitely a task you should had be committed to, publicly, from the very beginning of the announcement.
Re: Opportunities for Developing for Nokia Smartphones
mikecomputing | 15/02/2011, 20:18
"Porting QT to WP7 is definitely a task you should had be committed to, publicly, from the very beginning of the announcement."
You have to be very naive if you think Microsoft would accept Qt on WP7!!! its a direct comptetor too theyr own ecosystem.
you are right
haha888999 | 16/02/2011, 15:01
One has to be very, very naive if he think microsoft would accetp Qt on windows phone.
Microsoft has enough development tools, such as visual studio, c#, .net, etc.
Re: Opportunities for Developing for Nokia Smartphones
rjng | 18/02/2011, 20:59
Maybe, with WP7, a great deal os programs will come. It's possible to program including the easy basic language!
Great news
Son.Brian.Nguyen | 19/02/2011, 06:01
I love to this ^^, WP7 - a great deal OS
WP7
avijitdas | 19/02/2011, 06:34
I am a professional .NET developer and wanna get my hands dirty with WP7 asap. I would love to develop for WP7 phones.
Good News
kezzat | 19/02/2011, 13:06
it good news,i wanna develop for WP7.
As a Java and .NET developer
Zoobie | 19/02/2011, 18:31
I have to ask - is Java Virtual Machine available for WP7? What is the best development tool so far for application development there? Any emulators in sight?
Great deals and Best Opportunities for Developing for Nokia
chintandave_er | 19/02/2011, 21:46
I think this is great deals and Nokia+Microsoft can do much better that before.
I am Microsoft developer(C#,VB,.NET,SQL) and Nokia Developer (Qt,WRT,Symbian).
And I will really like to make Window app for Nokia in Visual Studio.
Chintan.
confused and dis appointed
kunal_mshah85 | 20/02/2011, 20:55
i had a seminar by nokia in my university .
i started a project on Symbian os and now they are ........
Migration
darknerd | 21/02/2011, 04:09
It would be nice to see migration kits to smooth over the transition. I think Windows Mobile is a good direction to go, but it'd be nice to see a Nokia advantage over others.
Also, having a Java environment on the platform is needed for those that have Java environment. I want to play my Q*Bert java app on Windows 7. :)
windows 7 handset for development
Raj_Nakkiran | 27/02/2011, 06:27
Hello,
What is the process to receive a dev phone (Win7) for develepoment and testing purposes.
Thanks,
/Raj
Really Confused
ootysant | 13/03/2011, 09:44
Hi,
I am currently developing applications and games in JME and i need to know whether it has wider opportunities in the future or do i have to switch to other platforms like Windows, Qt, Symbian.
Developing for which platform is beneficial.
Please help me out...?
Really Good News
stone_cheng | 16/03/2011, 16:33
I always trust Nokia and it's really good news for me!!
I hope Qt can be used for developing WP7 especially the Qt Quick.
Wonderful news
srikanthsombhatla | 14/02/2011, 19:07
A developer: Good, I love this. I love to develop for wp7. Its a greatest value ever created by Nokia to developer community.
Some day in 2012 Nokia says: Dear developers, we do not see much value with wp7 ecosystem (hmm remember 2011-feb-11, elop invented it). Since Meego is our next-generation disruptive products, we recommend you to target it with Qt.
Developers: Hey, i love this joke, so whats next.
None trusts you boss, better take rest in Barcelona rather than easting your time in blogs. Remember one thing, companies run by money/deals but communities run with trust.