We just announced more details on the plans for the upcoming Windows Marketplace for Mobile.

The Marketplace will be a mean to distribute apps developed for the Windows Mobile 6.5 platform which will allow developers to sell their apps at a price they choose (or distribute them for free should they prefer). Much like Community Games for Xbox Live or… well… the App Store for the iPhone :)

While you can find more details on the official press release, there are a couple of things I would like to highlight:

1. A portal for developers who want to start developing for the Windows Mobile Platform, is already available at http://developer.windowsmobile.com. While Windows Mobile 6.5 is not yet available, the tools and techniques already available there are the same that will apply for the upcoming version so now it is a great time to get up to speed
   
2. While developers will need to pay a fee to submit apps to the Marketplace… students will have the fee waived via the Dreamspark program. If you don’t know what Dreamspark is… well, basically is a site where students can go, register themselves (and validate their status a students) and then get access to a whole bunch of Microsoft technologies which inlcude:
   
• Windows Server 2003 and 2008
• Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 Professional Edition
• Robotics Developer Studio 2008 Academic Edition
• SQL Server 2008 Developer
• Expression Studio
• An IT Academy Student pass