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Developer.com Mobile Community Celebrates Winner

By Alex Gusev
January 23, 2006

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Last month, Developer.com readers voted for their favorite products of 2005. Its Product of the Year 2006 Contest Wireless/Mobile section reflects developers' priorities and market trends more distinctively than in the previous year.

We see approximately the same main players in there Java against C/C++ and C#, mobile phones' OS battle, and so forth. Finalists include:

Product Company

J2ME� Wireless Toolkit Sun Microsystems Inc.

Microsoft� Visual Studio� 2005 Microsoft Corporation

NetBeans� Mobility Pack NetBean.org

Nokia Developer's Suite for J2ME� Nokia

Sybase� PocketBuilder 2.0 Sybase Inc.

However, this year - unlike the previous one - you can observe several common trends: rapid growth for the wireless Java install base, and Windows CE-based devices (Pocket PCs and Smartphones) getting hotter because of Microsoft's new Windows Mobile 5.0 platform.

Click here to find out more about the finalists as well as what tool won the Developer.com Product of the Year 2006 Contest Wireless/Mobile section.