Trolltech Starts Distributing Torch Mobile’s Iris Browser for a Better User Experience on Mobile Phones

Announcing Licence Agreement

Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, Spain , 11 February - 2008 - Trolltech ASA today announced that it has entered into a license agreement with Torch Mobile Inc., one of the world's most experienced developers of WebKit-based software solutions for mobile and embedded devices. Trolltech will distribute Torch Mobile’s innovative Web browser, the Iris Browser, as part of the company's Qtopia offering.

 

Torch Mobile's Iris Browser further enriches Trolltech’s Qtopia Greensuite initiative, which enables Trolltech to offer software suites tailored to handset manufacturers or designers' specific technology requirements. The Iris application builds upon components of the open sourced WebKit, which is also being deeply integrated into Qt, the foundation for Qtopia. 

"We believe that this arrangement will allow us to capitalize on numerous synergies," said George Staikos, President of Torch Mobile. "With Qtopia and the Greensuite initiative we found a great platform for the Iris Browser, and we're excited to have been selected by Trolltech as their partners in this initiative."

Trolltech is a proven leader in the mobile and consumer electronics markets for Linux, having shipped its products on more than 10 million devices worldwide. The Iris Browser, designed as a browser SDK, makes the offering easy to customize and to meet specific device requirements.

"This is an excellent example of Trolltech's unified development approach "Qt everywhere", where desktop software components also deliver huge value in platforms for mobile and consumer electronics devices," said Adam Lawson, Product Director - Mobile and Embedded Solutions at Trolltech. "The Iris Browser on Qtopia is the latest result of our long relationship with Torch Mobile, and we are looking forward to more cooperation in the future".

Trolltech and Torch Mobile will exhibit together at Mobile World Congress 2008 held in Barcelona, Spain from February 11-14. Their booth will be located in stand: 2C72, hall: 2.

 

About Trolltech
Trolltech provides cross-platform software development frameworks and application platforms. Trolltech’s Qt is used in popular software such as Skype®, Google Earth, Adobe® Photoshop® Elements, Lucasfilm® and by more than 5000 customers worldwide. Trolltech’s Qtopia® has enabled a new generation of exciting consumer devices such as mobile handsets, video-phones, set-top boxes and media players. Trolltech’s software has shipped in more than 10 million devices.

Trolltech’s products enable companies to easily build and deploy software across a wide range of operating systems and electronic devices. The company serves desktop and embedded application providers, as well as consumer electronics and mobile vendors, who face challenges in delivering user-friendly and differentiated software. Trolltech enables customers to accelerate innovation, shorten time to market and increase revenues. Trolltech’s software improves the user experience by increasing the appeal and quality of customer's applications on desktop and devices. The future proof Qt software allows developers to code less, create more and deploy anywhere.

Trolltech supports open source and commercial customers. The company has offices in California, U.S.A.; Brisbane, Australia; Beijing, China; Berlin and Munich, Germany; Oslo, Norway. It is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol TROLL. For more information about Trolltech, please visit www.trolltech.com.

 

About the Iris Browser

The Iris Browser is an advanced and versatile application that brings the Web to mobile and embedded devices of virtually any size without impacting the quality or usability of the page. The Iris Browser is fast, secure and user-friendly, having the ability to render full Web pages in resource-constrained environments. In addition, it can be used as a high performance platform for local Web applications, AJAX/Web 2.0 integration and dynamic user interfaces. 

The Iris Browser is flexible and adaptable. Its core rendering engine, based on WebKit, is entirely independent from the upper application and user-interface layers, which can be customized to meet specific requirements. In addition, the engine is open source and can be reused in other applications.

 

About Torch Mobile

Torch Mobile, an experienced developer of WebKit solutions, provides innovative and cutting-edge software applications and services for mobile and embedded devices. Its customers include international manufacturers of mobile phones, ultra-mobile PCs, set-top boxes, portable media players, and other embedded systems. 

Since 2003, the individuals behind Torch Mobile have been acknowledged as experts in the WebKit development community. The company is headquartered in Toronto, Canada. The Iris Browser is Torch Mobile's flagship product. To learn more about the company, please visit www.torchmobile.com.

 

Torch Mobile and the Iris Browser are trademarks of Torch Mobile Inc. All other product or service names are the property of their respective owners. Trolltech, Qt and Qtopia are registered trademarks of Trolltech ASA. All other trademarks are registered trademarks of their respective owners.