# Which smartphone for development?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/which-smartphone-for-development/112716>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [August 22, 2007, 2:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/which-smartphone-for-development/112716 "2007-08-22T14:07:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/71c47a/32.png) [@greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/greg)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 2:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/which-smartphone-for-development/112716/1 "2007-08-22T14:07:00Z")

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Hi,

What mobile platform would be best for a Ruby developer interested in  
create  
some mobile applications for their own mobile phone?

I’m still trying to understand which platform is easier to develop on,  
Symbianor Microsoft Mobile? One disadvantage for the Windows Mobile  
platform  
it seems is you have to spend hundreds of $$ for the Visual Studio  
Professional edition. Any comments/recommendations re this would be  
appreciated…i.e. which platform should I target? or should it really  
not  
matter if we are dealing with J2ME anyway (i.e. cross platform)…

BTW: The phones I’ve got down so far to consider, for Australia (no  
iPhone  
available) =\>

\*\*\* Symbian \*\*\*

- Sony Ericsson P1i (  
[http://www.sonyericsson.com/spg.jsp?cc=au&lc=en&ver=4000&template=pip1&zone=pp&pid=10864](http://www.sonyericsson.com/spg.jsp?cc=au&lc=en&ver=4000&template=pip1&zone=pp&pid=10864)  
)

\*\*\* Windows Mobile \*\*\*

- O2 Xda Flame ( [http://www.seeo2.com/flame/](http://www.seeo2.com/flame/) )
- Dopod D810 (  
[http://www.dopodasia.com/Dopod/Singapore/En/Products/PDAPhone/D810/](http://www.dopodasia.com/Dopod/Singapore/En/Products/PDAPhone/D810/) )

Tks  
Greg