Developing Online Help for Mobile Applications

My company is just starting to develop applications for mobile devices (cell phone, iPad
, etc.). Can anyone tell me whether RoboHelp is the best Adobe application for devel
oping online help for mobile devices or if some other application should be used? Thanks.

Thanks for the insight. I haven't read about RH8 so wasn't aware of that difference. No, I haven't tried the demo yet. I guess that would be the logical next step. I've been trying to get to the STC web site to download the PDF file of the presentation, but can't get the web site to open. Oh well. Thanks again.
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