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I have played around with smart phone development (windows ce), and it seemed pretty straight forward using vs.net and having a nice emulator etc.
How is blackberry development? Seeing as it uses JavaME I am guessing learning the SDK/syntax for a .net developer wouldn’t be that hard to get going with.
But what about the development IDE, debugging, emulators etc.?
I have very limited experience with the Blackberry, but from what I do have, it is fairly user friendly. Java is fairly similar to C# which you would have probably used for CE development.
You will probably use Eclipse for the IDE which is good once you get used to it. It will probably frustrate you a bit coming from Visual Studio, but give it a chance.
As for debugging and emulators, from my limited experience, no problems there. Actually, I find the Blackberry a much nicer platform than any of the CE devices in many ways.
There is a Visual Studio plugin for Blackberry development too, but it requires that a runtime be installed on the Blackberries that use the programs developed, so it is only really useful for Enterprise apps where you have control over the users’ phones.