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Qtopia - 2.1.0 Release Notes

Qtopia - 2.1.0 Release Notes

• Qtopia - 2.1.0 Release Notes
• Introduction
• MMS Integration
• Other New Features
• Enhancements

Introduction

The Qtopia 2.1 release includes the Qtopia PDA and Phone Editions, as well as the Qtopia Core subset edition.

The following new features have been added to Qtopia:

• MMS support in Messages
• Touchscreen Phone support
• Fullscreen handwriting recognition
• Over-the-air configuration
• GPRS networking
• New themes and themeability
• Much improved Pictures application
• Server Storage Monitor
• Memory Monitor

MMS Integration

The integration of MMS now allows Qtopia users to exchange multimedia communications between MMS enabled phones and other devices. By adding MMS support to the Qtopia messages client it is now possible for standard slideshow messages, including images, audio, and text content to be sent and received.

Photo messaging is just one of the examples of Qtopia MMS in action: Qtopia users can use their device's camera to take photos for immediate delivery to a mobile recipient.

Qtopia MMS uses SMIL technologies and standards and supports WAP. The WAP stack is not provided.

Other New Features

The following is a list of other new features that have been added to Qtopia:

• The Call screen is now themable
• Extra functionality to the Calculator
• Serial port access
• Option -build to configure, for processing additional directories outside the Qtopia source tree.

Enhancements

Numerous other smaller improvements have been added to refine the usability and power of Qtopia including the following:

• Multi-language dictionary look-up
• Music and Video applications separated
• Improved dictionary look-up
• Improved handwriting recognition
• Build system improved
• Improved SMS support including multi-part messages and EMS reading
• Memory management significantly reworked
• Advanced functionality in theming