Windows Phone Thoughts: SYWARE Releses Visual CE 11

"Visual CE 11 applications can be created for any Microsoft Windows Mobile, Windows CE, Pocket PC, Smartphone, or Pocket PC Phone Edition handheld. Visual CE Personal Edition, with full forms design, relational database, and synchronization capabilities, is priced at $129. Visual CE Professional Edition, which includes all the features of the Personal Edition as well as royalty-free distribution rights, is priced at $399. Visual CE is also sold as one component of SYWARE, Inc.'s cost saving Mobile 360 Suites, which include additional mobility tools, such as mEnable® wireless connectivity software, Report CE® reporting and printing software, and sqlceEnable (TM) SQL Everywhere supporting software."

Visual CE 11 ofers software installation to storage cards, locking down the handheld by hiding the start menu, password editing masks, and phone dialing as well as other new features. SYWARE offers royalty-free distribution rights for $399, which isn't too bad as far as development costs go!