[quote=sdcellar][quote=meadandale]Don’t get me wrong, I’m always learning a few new things here and there (I read alot) but going full bore into doing phone development on a new platform requires an investment in equipment (you need at least one phone to develop to) and quite a bit of time.[/quote]A real handset, er phone, is nice at some point, but the majority of your work can (and should) be done with an emulator.
[edit]Never mind. Just read your follow-up post on emulators, and yeah, a real phone is key at some point.[/edit][/quote]
I did quite a bit of work on sony ericsson handsets with J2ME…and you only found out about the device idiosyncrasies when you put the phone on the actual device; the emulators would run the app fine.
I’m talking screen resolution, UI widget placement, color, memory…everything looks slightly different when it is on an actual phone. A real device has to be part of your development loop because if you wait until you are about to release to just ‘check it out on a real phone’ it will be the last time you ever make that decision 😉
Not to mention that some phone’s have firmware bugs (this was very common in the J2ME space where each phone would have a hand rolled JRE) that you’d never find on the emulator..only when your app was running in QA…
