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Microsoft's Smartphone 2003 SDK Released

Posted by michael on from the oxymoron dept.

cd_Csc writes "Microsoft's long awaited Smartphone 2003 SDK was released today. This free download is critical milestone for the Smartphone platform. For the first time, developers are now able to use the .NET Compact Framework to write Smartphone applications using Visual Studio. At Smartphone Thoughts, we have listed the details of what's new in the 2003 SDK along with some screen shots of enhancements to the Inbox and Internet Explorer applications."

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  1. DDOS by chevelleSS · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I imagine it won't be too long before someone will figure out how to write a worm to DDOS a companies phone system!

    1. Re:DDOS by ultrabot · · Score: 5, Interesting

      I imagine it won't be too long before someone will figure out how to write a worm to DDOS a companies phone system!

      And such a worm would be a boon for operators that charge for calls. Expect the operators' share prices to skyrocket whenever a worm alarm is given :-).

      I think the phones should have a hardware "lock" that would require the user to explicitly allow doing an operation that will cost them money.

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  2. Smartphone lawsuit by imnoteddy · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Ah, the Smartphone that Sendo is suing Microsoft over.

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  3. No VBScript? by goranb · · Score: 4, Interesting
    From Why Develop for Windows Mobile-based Devices?:
    Pocket Internet Explorer is a full Internet browser with support for HTML, XML/XSL, WML, cHTML, Jscript & SSL.

    What happened to VBScript? Not that I'm a fan of VBScript (I hate it for web pages, but it's great as a substitute for batch files...), but still... I have come across many web pages that give out VBScript code in pages when browsing with IE...

  4. Re:Chicken and egg situation by Talez · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Frankly I'd just like to see mobile phone standards converge for once. As if the marketplace wasn't fragmented enough already making a developer's life hell.

    Sure its great having .NET tools to develop for mobile phones but its also another thing developers have to learn to code for just so they can get their product out to a market.

  5. Re:Why would anyone buy one? by Chanc_Gorkon · · Score: 4, Interesting

    First, assuming Smartphone is like any other Microsoft os is stupid. Smartphone is of course based on the same os that runs Windows Mobile 2003. I have NEVER had a blue screen because there's no such thing on the platform. I have never had a crash take the whole device down either. It's much more robust and boots rather fast so a soft reset is bound to not annoy too much (although when your testing some unstable code to make things like a USB to Serial cable work on a Toshiba e740, it's kind of hairy! :) ). Smartphone has been reported to have problems. Non of these are verifiable to the US market because NOONE HAS THESE YET! By the time these are finally available, T-Mobile will end up being king of GPRS in the states because they have a 29.99 unlimited plan (or 19.99 with a voice plan). So your fear of having a several hundered dollar GPRS bill because of a worm is unfounded. BTW, Smartphone and WM 2003 are pretty locked down. No services run that are open all of the time. Sure, e-mail works so port 25 is open, but the e-mail program can't even understand html let alone the outlook virus code stuff. The e-mail client works best with straight text (e-mail should have never ventured into html or ActiveX code either).

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  6. The sign of things to come by BFKrew · · Score: 3, Interesting

    As someone who earns his living off writing for the .Net framework (Linux at home though ;) I think this is really quite an impressive piece of kit which could have a lot of ramifications for how software is written for phones, web pages and on the desktop.

    With the latest release of Visual Studio, they have really blurred the difference between how you put together a Windows Form, a ASP.NET form and a Mobile form. Just to have the ability to write a few classes and get good, working output on a Windows Form, ASP.NET form and a mobile form you start to realise just how impressive it is, and also how relatively easy it will be to, for example, take an existing Windows Form app and get it working on a WAP Page, ASP.Net page, Smartphone or anything else. This alone is a huge step forward and is going to make new development a whole lot easier as well as being able to leverage existing software onto the phones.

    Sadly, most on here will totally dismiss it with the predictable BSOD 'gags' (again and again... dzz) but this is something which is very impressive. I know you can do similiar things in Java but with MS you will be talking about business applications being run on phones, not the games and utilities that are mainly found on the Java phones. I will add that I do like Java, but I am speaking from what I have seen here.

    So, I say to you: take the time just to read about .Net and the SDK, what it can do. We all know that MS gets a lot of things wrong, but every so often they get something right - as all companies do.

  7. Re:Chicken and egg situation by Troed · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Or you use Opera for Smartphones on your Symbian-based phone (Sony Ericsson P800, Nokia 7650 etc) and view each and every page there is without problems.

    Yes, I use it. It works just fine.

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