


When the JASJAR from i-Mate ( Figure 1) was launched, it was the world’s first Windows Mobile 5.0 3G-enabled GSM/GPRS Pocket PC with Wi-Fi capability. The market seems to favor Pocket PC Phone Edition devices as these devices can easily replace your mobile phone with more functionality. In recent months, vendors have been busy pushing out new Windows Mobile 5 devices and consumers now have many choices. (I won’t cover the new APIs that are only available to native developers.) Devices I’ll focus on the classes that are of interest to managed developers. In this article, I will demonstrate some of the new managed APIs made available by Windows Mobile 5.0 and the. NET Compact Framework to easily build compelling applications that were once only possible to native developers. From a developer’s viewpoint, Windows Mobile 5.0 exposes many of its APIs as managed classes, thereby allowing developers using the. NET Compact Framework is now in its second generation-version 2.0. With the proliferation of Windows Mobile-based devices in the marketplace, companies are gradually mobilizing their enterprising applications to let their staff gain the competitive mobile advantage.Ĭoupled with the launch of Visual Studio 2005, the. Microsoft has recently launched the Windows Mobile 5.0 platform for Pocket PCs and Smartphones.
