i have been assigned to make an software/application for a mobile phone.if i choose iphone do i have to use macintosh to download its SDK.

Unfortuneatly you need to have Mac OS X to run the iPhone SDK.
So unless you have a mac then it will be very difficult to compile and test it.
ParkeyParker

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