Smart Phone Development

[Harsh Trivedi]

Hi,
Can anyone suggest that how many type of cell phones are available in the
market? I have surf through and find:
1) Microsoft Pocket PC Phone Edition
2) Palm OS PDA/Phones
3) BlackBerry
4) Symbian (Symbian operating system)

Now my question is if I want to develop .NET CF application then on which
type of device, I can develop it. I am not sure about this, but if we have
Windows CE 4.0 or Windows CE 5.0 installed on Smart PHone then we can
develop application in .net and can deploy?


Thanks in advance

 

[Richard Thombs]

Hi Harsh,

Visual Studio 2005 will let you target Pocket PCs and Smartphones
running Windows Mobile 2003 and Windows Mobile 2005, which accounts for
pretty much all Microsoft based PDA / Phones sold in the past 2-3
years.

As far as I'm aware, there is no way of running Compact Framework apps
on Palm OS (which is a shame, cos I'd love to be able to port ours!).

There's something called Crosstalk which I think lets you run on
Symbian, or maybe it's another framework which can be targeted at
Symbian and Windows Mobile.

The quick and easy answer is that Compact Framework ties you to Windows
Mobile devices.

R.

 

[Earl]

If you are speaker strictly about phone applications written in .Net, you
will target PocketPC Phones and Smartphones. Even between those two, there
are some minor differences in how you write your app. There are also
differences between the OS versions, so I recommend trying to settle on one
OS.