“Although Thompson did encounter some roadblocks while porting the Amplitude app to Windows Mobile, he was able to successfully resolve all issues and get the application to work on a HTC Touch Pro phone that runs on a build of the Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system.

Ready to Port your iPhone App to Windows Mobile? – Windows Mobile Blog

Only took 10 paragraphs to explain how easy this is. To port it to one particular phone running Windows Mobile 6.5.

[via TM]

08/01/09
  • Code is non-trivial, mon ami :) I'm surprised he was able to do in just 10 paragraphs. Besides, he's using v3.5 of the Compact Framework (CF) which is Windows Mobile 6.x device agnostic. The dimensions of the different devices may vary, but the (compact) framework itself is 6.x agnostic.

    xo, ai
  • Shouldn't you be sleeping?
  • And let me just be clear. I do think this is great. BUT this sounds like a headache, and is the same reason why we don't see developers port across other mobile platforms on a large scale currently. The big guys can do it, the small guys (for the most part) won't. It sucks, but that's the way it will be for the foreseeable future.
  • Actually, I don't think it applies to one specific phone. Should be even easier when Windows Mobile 7 comes ut, pretty annoying that 6.5 doesn't support things like semi-transparency for the UI out of the box. ;)
  • @Ted, you're right about the lack of in-built support for transparency features. Have you seen these transparency controls from beeMobile - http://beemobile4.net/?sitecateg=products&produ... ?

    ai
  • it's coming. push button conversion. couple days and blam. be sure, HTC is standardizing with microsoft. Palm's making gonna make it rip easy. there's just not that much going on in 95% of the apps.
  • bob e
    The 80/20 rule applies here quite well, simply port the 20% of the apps that generate 80% of the revenue.
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