PhoneGap, while not a complete walk in the park, is the one of the most fully featured, most flexible and most well-developed cross-smartphone development solutions I've come across and, when it comes to capitalizing the basic Web skills of HTML, JavaScript and CSS, it stands on its own! PhoneGap gets a Gearhead rating of 4.5 out of 5!

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