<p>I've been putting together a small web form for our technicians to use from their phones out in the field.  However I'm having a lot of trouble getting things working using ASP.NET Mobile, and there seems to be few resources out there to help learn this stuff.  I'm also having trouble <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/291638/how-do-you-get-the-value-of-a-bound-mobilelistitem" title="Getting Help">getting help</a>.  </p>

<p>So the thing is, do I really need to use the mobile controls?  The phones will all have web browsers, so I'm thinking if I'm careful with the interface I can get as good or better results than using the mobile controls. </p>

<p>The only thing I would like from the mobile controls is the PhoneCall control... so the follow up question would be: Can I get the functionality of the PhoneCall control without using it?</p>

Use mobile controls has same adventages that web controls in web. Using Mobile Controls + Controls Adapters + WURFL helps to developing very fast to many devices.
Yes, you can use WTAI primitives of WML:
```
<a ref="wtai://wp/mc;34123456789">Call</a>
```