Qt Software (formely Trolltech) today announced the porting of Qt to S60 on Symbian OS. Qt is a powerful C++ application development framework, which makes it easy for developers to create applications once and then deploy them on any of the Windows, Mac, Linux, Windows CE, Windows Mobile and embedded Linux platforms. With the inclusion of the S60 platform, Qt developers have an additional 80 million target devices that they can support with their applications.

Qt for S60 is yet at the stage of an early technical preview, but a final release can be expected in Q2 2009. The version I have seen running is still a bit unstable and doesn't really offer the S60 look and feel but this later is supposed to be available soon. Anyway, that is a good news to see a true multi-platform framework available on top of Symbian platform. Furthermore, Qt being a C/C++ environment, it will be possible to use Symbian native APIs in a Qt application. Qt for S60 is available for download from Qt Software current website and will work with S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1 and later releases.