Interestingly, a Wise One on another forum has suggested Android or iOS as possible development platforms (although it must be said that he is into games).

There again, there is always the BlackBerry OS. Or Symbian*. And Windows Mobile or CE. Some of that stuff seems pretty "open" (with SDK's available, etc.), whilst others appear to be a bit, umm, "closed". So that's them kicked into touch, then! frown

Quote:
The Android operating system consists of 12 million lines of code including 3 million lines of XML, 2.8 million lines of C, 2.1 million lines of Java, and 1.75 million lines of C++.

Yes, what a mess! But probably more lines of code than the program "running" (plodding?) the www.police.uk website, then! whistle

To my mind, if anyone is planning to put in time and effort in developing applications for hand-held devices, then s/he needs to be sure that the fruits of all that labour will end up working on as many platforms (devices) as possible. I can't help but wonder if good old DOS isn't in fact the answer (oh, titter ye not). That is, develop in DOS, and then run the app(s) on whatever hardware-software combinations ("platforms") support DOS emulators (and I'm hoping that many - or even most - do). Hey, it could be a chance (excuse?) to take another look at my old DOS stuff! smile

Android
BlackBerry
iOS
Palm
Symbain
Windows

* The successor to Psion, in case anyone was wondering (and therefore very "worthy", in my opinion)!

If you don't inspect ... don't expect.