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New to smart phones

I am a C# ASP.NET developer with distant roots in developing for DOS and Windows, and lately some web. I have a background in C++, OOP, OOD, and in the last 6 years moved into C#, then SQL Server, LINQ, Entity Framework (4.0) andf Dynamic Data.

I want to make a major new effort to get into smart phones but have only experience with Java applets on a Motolora phone, as a developer not as the architect.

What OS platforms are there to choose from?
What languages?
What dev. environments?

I assume I'd become a member of the IOS Developer Program to develop for the iPhone. I assume I must to post/sell my app. But is their tool the only way to go? What language is it?

Any way for me to use C#/LINQ/EF4 on smart phone applications?

Thanks,
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Thanks. But I would want to serve as a large a market for each program I write. I have found some cross platform tools, like RhoMobile, which claim Windows Mobile support out of the box for an app that will work on iPhone, Android, Sembian and RIM.

If I need to master new technologies, that would, in the long run, be easier for me if I could "write once use many" versus needing to record the same application on multiple platforms.

Have you heard of RhoMobile? Is uses Ruby on Rails for its MVC implementation.

I'm interested in your comments since mobile development is new to me...

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