Smartphone 2003 Device ID

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Rob Tiffany, eMVP

Hello all,
Like many of you, I either use OpenNETCF.Win32.Core.GetDeviceID() or
Neil Cowburn's MSDN article to grab the GUID from Pocket PC devices. With
both of these approaches I've returned some really long and strange GUID's
from generic CE.NET devices. Even worse, with production Smartphones from
various vendors, I consistently return the same GUID that;s used by both the
Pocket PC and Smartphone emulators (00000100-0000-0000-0000-). In my
application, I use these Device IDs to tell the device apart but it looks
like I might be in real trouble with the Smartphones.

My question is, are Smartphones required to have a unique Device ID, and if
so, how does one retrieve it?

Thanks,
Rob Tiffany
 
None of the devices required to have it. This is why SP developers were so
anxious to get their hands on IMEI. Of course IMEI is not possible to
retrieve with the standard even privileged certificate
 
We're looking into clearing this up in a future release by introducing a new
API that will return an ID that is unique to both the device and the app.
This new API would not require you to be privileged.

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Robert Levy
Program Manager
Mobile Devices Product Group
http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile

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I thought I read somewhere that 2003 devices had to support it, if they
were to be given the Designed for 2003 logo, or was that canned?
 
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