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Comparing development platforms
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| Bill Ray 2005-01-23, 4:04 pm |
| I'm writing a report comparing the different smart phone operating
systems from the point of view of the developer: looking at the
opportunities and challenges posed by the different OSs and why a
developer might choose one platform over another.
The report will consider Symbian UIQ, Symbian Series 60, Microsoft
Mobile SmartPhone, Microsoft Mobile Pocket PC, Palm OS and BREW. I've
been talking to all the various vendors and companies developing
software for each platform (and where possible, multiple platforms) to
build up a picture of what's happening on each. Once of the areas I'm
looking at is unofficial support, such as that found in this group;
both in terms of quantity and quality of support available.
While I've developed software for all the platforms we're looking at,
I've not done much development for any of them, and am well aware of
the ease with which obvious things can be missed. So I thought I
would post and see if anyone had any thoughts about any aspects of
SmartPhone which I really should make sure to mention: things which
make it superior to anything else, or drawbacks which limit its
usefulness.
The report is being created for ARC Chart (http://www.arcchart.com).
Let me know what you think.
Bill.
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| Ginny Caughey [MVP] 2005-01-23, 4:04 pm |
| Bill,
As long as you are considering community support, be sure to consider the
Smart Device Framework on www.opennetcf.org, which provides free shared
source .Net Compact Framework code for Windows Mobile Smartphones and
PocketPCs.
--
Ginny Caughey
..Net Compact Framework MVP
"Bill Ray" <bray@arcchart.com> wrote in message
news:41ec2a42.510198265@news-europe.giganews.com...
> I'm writing a report comparing the different smart phone operating
> systems from the point of view of the developer: looking at the
> opportunities and challenges posed by the different OSs and why a
> developer might choose one platform over another.
>
> The report will consider Symbian UIQ, Symbian Series 60, Microsoft
> Mobile SmartPhone, Microsoft Mobile Pocket PC, Palm OS and BREW. I've
> been talking to all the various vendors and companies developing
> software for each platform (and where possible, multiple platforms) to
> build up a picture of what's happening on each. Once of the areas I'm
> looking at is unofficial support, such as that found in this group;
> both in terms of quantity and quality of support available.
>
> While I've developed software for all the platforms we're looking at,
> I've not done much development for any of them, and am well aware of
> the ease with which obvious things can be missed. So I thought I
> would post and see if anyone had any thoughts about any aspects of
> SmartPhone which I really should make sure to mention: things which
> make it superior to anything else, or drawbacks which limit its
> usefulness.
>
> The report is being created for ARC Chart (http://www.arcchart.com).
>
> Let me know what you think.
>
> Bill.
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| Bill Ray 2005-01-23, 4:04 pm |
| Thanks: I had missed that one completely.
Bill.
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 16:29:42 -0500, " Ginny Caughey [MVP]"
<ginny.caughey.online@wasteworks.com> wrote:
>Bill,
>
>As long as you are considering community support, be sure to consider the
>Smart Device Framework on www.opennetcf.org, which provides free shared
>source .Net Compact Framework code for Windows Mobile Smartphones and
>PocketPCs.
>--
>Ginny Caughey
>.Net Compact Framework MVP
>"Bill Ray" <bray@arcchart.com> wrote in message
>news:41ec2a42.510198265@news-europe.giganews.com...
>
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