Handheld Development, Lazarus or Turbo Delphi.Net

Question

I'm starting to program some kind of portable program as a hobby, right now I have knowledge of the Blackberry App (Java), Symbian S60 (PyS60) and J2ME

Something I want to know is the development of Windows Mobile / Pocket PC and iPhone, but since I am not using a Mac, I can go on to develop Windows Mobile / Pocket PC.

Here's the question:
1. What is better than Lazarus or Turbo Delphi.Net?
2. Do both have some kind of support for network access (GPRS, Wi-Fi, HSDPA, etc.)?
3. Do both have access to the database, both the remote database and the standalone / embedded database? How is SQL Server 2005 CE?
4. Do I need some driver installed on Windows Mobile / Pocket PC to be able to work with the SQL Server 2005 developer on the server that I already have?

If possible answer point by point

thanks

Answer 1

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4. DB lib ADO/ODBC/JDBC.

wiki lazarus/fpc CE . CF.NET, VS TD.NET.

Answer 2

• Lazarus , WinCE, Delphi 4.Net , CG Turbo Delphi .Net CF 1.1.

, Delphi Prism , .net, MonoTouch IPhone.

2 3, , Lazarus, , Delphi 4.Net .Net framework CF.

4. , .Net CF SqlServer Mobile edition Sql Server, , SqlCEConnection SqlConnection Sql.

Answer 3

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