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quanticle on Jan 18, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why U.S. Galaxy S Phones run Android 2.1

As far as I understand it, Windows Phone 7's API is Silverlight with a few restrictions related to screen size and the like.

I haven't coded anything for Windows CE, but making a Silverlight app for Windows Phone 7 is about a difficult as making a WCF app for Windows, or an ASP.Net app for the web.

bokchoi on Jan 19, 2011 [–]

Why was this downvoted?

akgerber on Jan 19, 2011 | [–]

It confused the SDK for application developers with the hardware dev kit for OEMs, and was thus off-topic.

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