Nokia has confirmed a change that brings Qt to the forefront of its future plans. Qt is a robust, tried and tested framework that has been developed to work with both current Nokia smartphones as well as with future Symbian and MeeGo products.  

Qt is a cross-platform application and UI framework. Using Qt , you can write web-enabled applications once and deploy them across desktop, mobile and embedded operating systems without rewriting the source code. , Qt 's in-built support for HTML5 complements Nokia's intent to support HTML5 in Web browsers.

Nokia will no longer refer to Symbian^3 or Symbian^4 as planned and future improvements in Symbian will be developed in Qt .

Rich Green, CTO of Nokia: "We're making strategic technology decisions that will accelerate our ability to offer the strongest possible opportunity for developers and the richest possible experience for consumers.  For developers, it will open up a huge installed customer base for their applications. 

For more information about Qt application development framework including Qt Quick and HTML5 support go to qt.nokia.com/qtquick and qt.nokia.com/HTML5. Developers can start developing with Qt here.