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Mobile computing presents one of the most exciting oportunities in computing today, and the tools you can find below provide one of the fastest routes for developing mobile applications. With them you can write applications to run on a wide range of Windows CE devices, such as the HP Jornada 720 you have, or any other Pocket PC or Handheld PC device.

Developing mobile-computing applications presents challenges not encountered with applications designed to run on desktop computers. There are three main characteristics that differentiate these types of application:

• Applications running on the Handheld/Pocket PC must make efficient use of the limited memory and storage capabilities of these devices.

  These applications often run in a disconected mode -that is, they are not connected to the corporate data servers and so must store relevant data locally and may need to enable off-line updating of this data with subsquent copying to the corporate data server when a connection is established.

• Connections typically use low bandwidth connections (e.g., wireless, GSM, or modem connections) that may be unreliable.

More and more solutions are emerging for connecting Handheld PC 2000 and Pocket PC devices with wireless connections that remain connected all the time. The 802.11 standard defines wireless LAN connections -there are several PMCIA cards and Compact Flash Cards available for them, such as the one issued to you.

 

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