Making the most of a release date

So not to long ago i wrote  a rant about how there was no SDK for the omnia (managed or unmanaged)  and i can finally breathe a sigh of relief as they have now released a SDK for the phone that will target specific features of the phone and not just the generic Windows Mobile Features. I am not going to credit anyone specifically since i received the news from a few people , but if you did send me a notification thank you very much.

Now that they have released the SDK a interesting question comes to mind , is there still any buzz left around the phone and if not can they now use this to increase the buzz that has died down by announcing that developers can easily create applications for there mobile devices.

If it does not get the attention of the normal dev community it has to get the attention of the Homebrew community that would have been using all sorts of weird hacks up until this point. So while they still do get some notice i think it is sorely wasted.

If they (Samsung) had released the SDK as soon as or even before the the phone was released , i am pretty sure we would have had quite a few custom applications that make use of the phones advanced features. Also any developer would now have had many more months of extra experience in using their SDK. A good example of how a this should have worked is by taking a look at the iPhone SDK and the amount of applications and games that have now been released. The quality of these applications have been steadily increasing as time moves on. It should be mentioned that a lot of this success has also been attributed to apples iPhone app store.

What surprised me the most though (besides it being so late) is the fact that it still does not have widget creation. Seeing as how they love to advertise this feature , it would have really helped to be able to create your own custom widgets. Again this feature early on in the life cycle would have surely brought in more attention to the product as well.

Here’s to hoping that they advance the SDK and add more features to it. As without that things are going to get really tough to maintain.I say this purely because the only way to use the current API that they provide is through C++.Their solution to using the API from managed code is to make dllimports :( .Frankly to me this is not the way a API should be implemented. I guess i cant complain since it works anyway and there might be some reason to

Since i don’t have a contact inside Samsung i don’t really know why they released so late, but i am sure that they had good reason to do so.

As always let me know what you think and if you have some inside information please do let me know.

~stalkerh