Trolltech and Red Bend Software have formed a partnership to bring over-the-air software component management to Linux mobile phones that use Trolltech’s Qtopia application platform.

Red Bend and Trolltech have integrated Red Bend’s vRapid Mobile solution for software component management into Trolltech’s Qtopia application platform. The joint solution has been implemented and tested on Qtopia-based handsets, including Trolltech’s Qtopia Greenphone. It showcases how the software assets in Qtopia-based mobile phones can be customized for different consumer segments, creating new revenue opportunities in delivering software features, applications and services easily and securely over-the-air.

“With the addition of Red Bend’s vRapid Mobile in Qtopia, Trolltech customers will gain unprecedented ability to manage core software and features on-demand,” said Benoit Schillings, Trolltech CTO. “In addition, the broad community of software vendors that provide middleware and applications to Qtopia will be able to update or add software to phones already in the hands of consumers, increasing their competitiveness, improving time to market, and expanding the addressable market for their software products.”

To see a live demonstration of the integrated solution at Mobile World Congress 2008, February 11-14 in Barcelona, visit Red Bend in suite 4.3HS50 in Hall 4, or Trolltech in stand #2C72 in Hall 2.