Mobile Observatory: WP7,WP8. When Will the Enterprise Get Its Chance to Build Windows Phone Mobile Apps?

March 10th, 2011 by Tony Rizzo

Spotlight on our WP7 “journey”
Troy Turri is typing…
Troy Turri: No socket support, rumors say maybe later in Q1. We need it.
File system access restricted to local app storage – good news: we’re past this now but had to work around this restriction.
New push notification implementation required, similar to iphone but not exactly – need to implement this, not started yet
No native MSFT RSA encryption support yet, SSL is there. AES is also possible but we like RSA better.
Silverlight is used to create UI > we need to create new code for the UI objects and are doing so now.
No HTML5 in browser, rumors say maybe by the summer. Not 100% required but needed for native/web hybrid model.
Bottom line – we have a long way to go on WP7. If we get socket support soon, maybe June

Tags: Development, Enterprise Mobility, Microsoft, Mobile Apps, Mobile Devices, Mobile Observatory, Tony Rizzo, Windows Phone 7, WP7

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Tony Rizzo

Tony Rizzo has been involved in high-tech since 1978, and was a pioneer student-user of e-mail in the early 1980s at NYU's Courant Institute, when the Internet was still known as Arpanet. He's had, and continues to have, numerous mobile lives. Tony feels very fortunate to always be slightly ahead of the tech curve, whether as an educator, an editor-in-chief or a pioneer mobility analyst.