Friday, January 13, 2006
Getting The Unique Device ID
Posted by Jon Westfall in "DEVELOPER" @ 03:00 AM
"There is a new API available for retrieving a device id in Windows Mobile 5.0 for both Pocket PC and Smartphone. The first question: why do we need a new way of getting the device ID, what’s wrong with the old? To answer this you need to know what a device ID is. There is a very good and detailed explanation here, but in essence it’s a 16 byte code derived from hardware specific information that is unique to each device. This ID is not the same as an IMEI or a phone number found on a phone based device, both of which can be changed, but instead this code lives and dies with the device."
If you're building apps and want an easy way to 'remember' which device they are on (or tie them to that device) than this is probably what you're going to build on in WM 5. An interesting write-up courtesy of the Windows Mobile Team Blog.
If you're building apps and want an easy way to 'remember' which device they are on (or tie them to that device) than this is probably what you're going to build on in WM 5. An interesting write-up courtesy of the Windows Mobile Team Blog.
