The European Commission has announced that it has unconditionally approved Nokia’s acquisition of Trolltech. The move will enable Nokia to accelerate its cross-platform software strategy for mobile devices and desktop applications, and develop its Internet services business.

With Trolltech, Nokia and third party developers will be able to develop applications that work in the Internet, across Nokia’s device portfolio and on PCs. Nokia’s software strategy for devices is based on cross-platform development environments, layers of software that run across operating systems, enabling the development of applications across the Nokia device range. Examples of current cross-platform layers are Web runtime, Flash, Java and Open C.

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The open source Maemo platform, which is used on Nokia’s Internet Tablet devices, will soon support Trolltech’s Qt development toolkit. Nokia says that the GTK-based Hildon framework will continue to be used as the primary toolkit for Maemo’s user interface and core applications, but the Qt libraries will be distributed with Maemo so that third-party Qt developers can bring their applications to the platform.

Nokia is currently in the process of acquiring Trolltech and has some ambitious plans to bring Qt support to a multitude of mobile platforms. Nokia is particularly eager to enable development of applications that can target both Maemo and S60, a proprietary operating system used on Nokia phones.

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ZDNet.co.uk has posted the first of a two part video series looking at the current state of mobile Linux at last week’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

In the first video they look at how Trolltech is putting Linux apps on a Windows Mobile phone, how Access plans to port thousands of Palm OS apps over to the LiMo Foundation’s Linux platform, and how Azingo is running Series 60 apps on Linux. Scan to 3 minutes in for a good look at ALP in action.

Nokia and Trolltech today announced that they have entered into an agreement that Nokia will make a public voluntary tender offer to acquire Trolltech. Nokia will offer NOK 16 per share in cash (approximately $150 million USD). The board of directors of Trolltech have already recommended that its shareholders accept Nokia’s Offer.

According to the company, the acquisition of Trolltech will enable Nokia to accelerate its cross-platform software strategy for mobile devices and desktop applications, and develop its Internet services business. With Trolltech, Nokia and third party developers will be able to develop applications that work in the Internet, across Nokia’s device portfolio and on PCs. Nokia’s software strategy for devices is based on cross-platform development environments, layers of software that run across operating systems, enabling the development of applications across the Nokia device range. Examples of current cross-platform layers are Web runtime, Flash, Java and Open C.

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Trolltech has announced the discontinuation of its Greenphone open source reference handset. The company says they have run out of stock and will not offer any further additional kits. As an open, Linux-based mobile phone, Qtopia Greenphone was a project initiated by Trolltech to stimulate open development of mobile phones and to serve as an industry catalyst for the open phone movement.

The company is now pointing interested users to the OpenMoko project and FIC Neo1973 phone. Trolltech recently ported its Qtopia Phone Edition software to the Neo 1973 phone.

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Trolltech today announced Qtopia Phone Edition has been ported to the Neo 1973 mobile phone from Taiwanese manufacturer FIC and open-source software provider OpenMoko. Now, in addition to Trolltech’s Qtopia Greenphone, developers have an additional reference platform and form factor for development and testing of new mobile Qtopia applications.

The company has also announced that the Qtopia Phone Edition will be made completely open source under GPL license.

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Jataayu Software today announced that it has integrated its popular mobile browser, wap stack and messaging technologies on Trolltech’s Qtopia platform. Qtopia is a comprehensive application platform and user interface for Linux-based mobile devices. Jataayu is a leading provider of mobile browsing and messaging products and solutions. The announcement was made during the 2007 Linux Mobile Communications Conference organized in Beijing by the China Academy of Telecommunications Research from China Ministry of Information Industry and Trolltech.

Jataayu will be showcasing its popular mobile HTML browser – jB5 and Multimedia messaging client – jMMS on the Qtopia platform. Jataayu also announced that it will be making available its successful Mobile Instant Messaging client to be part of its Qtopia Mobile Linux Application suite.

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Trolltech’s Qtopia is a commonly used mobile Linux. It’s used in a large number of different devices – from Sony’s mylo communicator, to Motorola and Panasonic’s Linux phones. While you might not have come across it in the Carphone Warehouse, it’s a common platform in one of the biggest mobile markets going – China.

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Trolltech will provide free phones and SDKs (software development kits) to developers willing to target its Qtopia application development framework for mobile phones. The Qtopia Greenphone Grant Program will provide an unspecified number of awardees with Qtopia SDKs, along with Trolltech’s open, Linux-based Greenphone target device.

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Ecommercetimes has posted an interview with Trolltech CTO Benoit Schillings.

LinuxInsider: What is the current market situation for mobile Linux and open phones trends?

Benoit Schillings: The market is very exciting right now and growing rapidly. With Nokia (NYSE: NOK) Latest News about Nokia and Palm’s (Nasdaq: PALM) Latest News about Palm recent announcements in support of Linux, we see a lot more promise around the growing shipments of Linux-based devices in the marketplace. We also see a lot of interest in driving innovation around new sets of applications with the availability of open phones. If people could customize their own phone like they can with laptops and PCs, I think you would see a lot more happy mobile phone subscribers out there.