Thanks Alan, very much appreciated. We've been talking with some people about getting SkyDemon hardware devices produced. There's nothing to announce yet but it would seem unlikely for SkyDemon to be successful in general and for there not to be a dedicated hardware device created at some point.
mr_rodge, unfortunately there isn't scope now to introduce proxy settings for that aspect of SkyDemon before release. This is almost certainly something that'll happen after v1 release though. As for your hardware question, installation of .net should be as easy as connecting the device via ActiveSync and running the .net installer on your desktop machine. It should offer to install it on the device during installation. As for whether it'll be wiped when the device is reset, I have no idea. There's a forum specifically for that type of question on the SkyDemon site.