mobile phones and C#

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I've been searching for a new cell phone and I've noticed that many cell
phones can download java applications for their phones. How possible is it
to write applications for any kind of cell phone in C#? I don't know much
about these phones but I'm not talking about the expensive ones with PDA and
integrated OSes. I'm talking about the cheaper phones that are accesible to
most people.

Thanks for any additional help.
 
VM said:
I've been searching for a new cell phone and I've noticed that many cell
phones can download java applications for their phones. How possible is it
to write applications for any kind of cell phone in C#? I don't know much
about these phones but I'm not talking about the expensive ones with PDA and
integrated OSes. I'm talking about the cheaper phones that are accesible to
most people.

Thanks for any additional help.
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Unless its a SmartPhone I dont think it is possible. And these do not
come cheap usually. You would need to use Compact Framework to develop
in C#. And as far as I know only PocketPC and Smartphone support it.

Some developer info on smartphones.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/developers/default.mspx
 
The 'cheaper ones' all run Java too. Generally speakig, Microsoft
has been shut out of 'telephony' because the handset vendors did not
want to pay Microsoft's licensing fees and they rationalized their
own attempts to own the development for this emerging market by
stating they did not want to support Microsoft as they feared Microsoft
would control yet another platform of devices.

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I have a mobile phone which uses Java. However, the only way for me to
write software for it is to use the Java2 Mobile Edition, which costs money
and is very awkward to use (in my opinion). I'm going to drop test my
mobile (heheheh), and then buy either a PocketPC or a Smartphone (not sure
which yet, though I'm leaning towards a PDA).

So. J2ME for most Java phones, or ..NET Compact Framework for PocketPCs and
Smartphones. Hmmmm.... I know which one I'd rather have !!

Get a PocketPC or Smartphone, then you can use your existing .NET skills for
it.

HTH

John Young
 
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VM said:
I've been searching for a new cell phone and I've noticed that many cell
phones can download java applications for their phones. How possible is it
to write applications for any kind of cell phone in C#?
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The Compact Framework (Smart Device Application template in VS.NET)

I don't know much
about these phones but I'm not talking about the expensive ones with PDA and
integrated OSes. I'm talking about the cheaper phones that are accesible to
most people.
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You can get either a SmartPhone or a PocketPC Phone Edition. I've used the
Orange SPV E200 and love it, but the iMATE
http://www.devbuzz.com/content/zinc_imatepocketpcphoneedition_pg1.asp is
undoubtedly PDA and Phone Nirvana.

You may want to check out www.devbuzz.com for a bunch of good resources,
www.opennetcf.org (the best site for Compact Framework development) or hit
the CF Newsgroup microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.compactframework
 
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