>>>>>>>Hi All,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Any recommnedations for the best mobile phone/device to use for developing mobile applications on?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Android - if you have strong windows ties in the backend try the Moonlight subset - Silverlight on Mono.
>>>>>>WinMobile left many unhappy users - even if some of those memories stem from previous versions,
>>>>>>they never reached the dominant position they had in the desktop.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>my 0.0005 EUR
>>>>>>
>>>>>>thomas
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>OK, but which actual device do you prefer to use for testing, development etc?
>>>>
>>>>VM - with Android you have a plugin for eclipse.
>>>>
>>>>regards
>>>>
>>>>thomas
>>>
>>>:) No Thomas, I am not explaining myself properly. I am asking which mobile phone (actual phone hardware) do you prefer to use for your mobile app development?
>>
>>I, for one, am not clear on your question.
>>No-one develops applications *on* a mobile phone. You develop *for* a specific mobile phone OS - usually using (at least initially) a simulator. Picking a specific piece of hardware to test on is a bit like picking a specific browser for a web app......
>
>It's really quite simple; you develop using some dev tool and environment but then at some point you are going to load it to your phone to test it. What phone is your personal preference. I need to decide on one and looking around I find this is quite highly rated: HTC Desire (Android based) - http://www.testfreaks.co.uk/mobile-phones/htc-desire/ . But perhaps others have other prefs.

Sort of seems like an a**-backwards way of looking at it to me :-}.
I'd start by looking at what I wanted to achieve in the project, assess the best platform to give the required functionality and only then start looking at test hardware (although maybe the breadth of hardware choice would be a factor earlier on) But I suppose it depends on the project - if you know that you can dictate the hardware then maybe that's different.....