I got my Dell Axim
X5
handheld unit last night. Very nice device. Much nicer than my old
Palm V. Gorgeous 16
bit color screen. Snappy response from the OS, which is
PocketPC
2002.
Battery life seems good. And with a wifi card sitting in the Compact
Flash slot, I can get on my home network easily.
Now, here's what's really cool. I installed the final beta of
Visual
Studio last night. (And it only took 2.5 hours...) Within
30 minutes I had written, tested and deployed a Compact
Framework application to the device. Writing with CF seems to be
quite a bit easier/nicer than writing with J2ME.
I haven't looked at J2ME in quite some time, but the
last time I looked it was not a fun thing to use. Writing apps
for the Compact Framework, at least in my initial testing, is an
absolute dream.
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