Company Red Five Labs, which is SYMBIAN Platinum partner, recently released their almost revolutionary product for Symbian platform which provides cross platform compatibility for your .NET application running under Windows mobile to Symbian OS devices running S60.

Details avaliable at the company web site - Red Flag Five

Brief description:

• Supporting S60, 2^nd edition, FP2
• Symbian OS 8.0a
• Binary compatible with .NET Compact Framework 1.0
• ARM and x86 support

Benefits of the .NET platform for Symbian include being able to:

• Leverage your .NET investment

  Together with code base and skill set re-use, developing mobile applications in a managed runtime environment has never been easier (and more productive!).

• Write great mobile applications, fast!

  The powerful class libraries which ship with the framework further enable one to focus on solving problems at high levels of abstraction (or application domain) whilst avoiding the typical, low level quagmire of Symbian's internal plumbing and C++ idioms.

• Target a stable platform

  The .NET Compact Framework is covered by an ISO / ECMA standard, and changes infrequently compared to the Symbian OS and S60 user interface release cycles. Therefore, developing against the Compact Framework ensures less frequent rewrites or modifications to your code base.