So for the past few days I've had my first real look at a Symbol MC35.    Its a great little device, small form factor low price.

However, I have one concern in an effort to-do everything it uses the camera to-do barcode scanning.

This is great,  a real innovation why can't all Windows Mobile devices do just this with their cameras?

However my only complaint is that the Symbol's barcode reader only works in Wedge mode. Wedge mode means drop the barcode wherever the cursor is.    This although works is a little bit 1980's.

More expensive Symbols use the Symbol SDK which fires a nice event when the barcode scanner scans.   Events are great, you can parse, validate and 'do stuff' on successful barcode scan.   This is all lovely,  and works really well.   Wedge mode really doesn't come anywhere close to this.

So why am I complaining?   Its all good small package right price etc.    But why oh why did the SDK integration have to be lost?   Surely it couldn't have added much more to the R&D cost?

Rant Over...