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Thursday, February 23, 2006
Windows Mobile ideal for corporate mobile services?
Windows Mobile is no doubt very powerful, and it's no arguing that if you have .NET-based services in your company it's a benefit also to have a .NET platform in your phone. There are a few arguments against though:
* There are too few Windows Mobile phones. I doubt companies will replace all the users' phones.
* Existing Web services are not .NET-based. Rather they are based on HTML forms and/or GET/POST client/server interaction. Windows Mobile has no real advantage here.
The article says there are most developers for Windows Mobile (10000), but arguable Mobile Java has as many, especially if you count J2SE and J2EE developers as potential J2ME ditto.
It also says J2ME lacks access to the file system of the phone. J2ME supports that, but yet not in that many phones, still probably in many more phones than have Windows Mobile.
It's a bit of a apples/oranges discussion, as Windows Mobile is mainly used in PDA-like phones, and if that's what you need then Windows Mobile provides much more functionality than ever J2ME can. To access all mobile users in the company you can't rely on Windows Mobile only though.
Microsoft's improved Windows Mobile 5.0 will boost applications choice for users
* There are too few Windows Mobile phones. I doubt companies will replace all the users' phones.
* Existing Web services are not .NET-based. Rather they are based on HTML forms and/or GET/POST client/server interaction. Windows Mobile has no real advantage here.
The article says there are most developers for Windows Mobile (10000), but arguable Mobile Java has as many, especially if you count J2SE and J2EE developers as potential J2ME ditto.
It also says J2ME lacks access to the file system of the phone. J2ME supports that, but yet not in that many phones, still probably in many more phones than have Windows Mobile.
It's a bit of a apples/oranges discussion, as Windows Mobile is mainly used in PDA-like phones, and if that's what you need then Windows Mobile provides much more functionality than ever J2ME can. To access all mobile users in the company you can't rely on Windows Mobile only though.
Microsoft's improved Windows Mobile 5.0 will boost applications choice for users
