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BlackBerry

The BlackBerry solution is so ubiquitous that it has entered the language, and yet it’s a platform that many developers tend to overlook, possibly because it doesn’t have a desktop equivalent.

However, if you have any interest in mobile development, ignoring the BlackBerry platform is simply crazy, especially as it’s surprisingly easy to get into.

To help get you started, we’ve collated a number of useful resources here in one place.

The recommended starting point is to read an introductory article by Mike James, the editor of VSJ.

NEWS
Research In Motion has some new and enhanced tools for developing web applications for BlackBerry.
ARTICLES
If you need to create an application that fully exploits the facilities of a BlackBerry handheld device you need to move to creating Java ME applications from scratch. Mike James describes just how easy it can be.
How easy can it be to create an application for a handheld device? With the BlackBerry RAD approach you don’t have to trade power for simplicity.
The BlackBerry is so popular you can’t afford to ignore it, but how do you get started developing the killer application? In the first of a series of three articles, Mike James explains that it’s all a matter of one step at a time.
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