The Installation of PhoneGap is pretty simple and infact its just about copying the files to the Visual Studio template folder to kick start your Windows Phone Development using PhoneGap .
One of the Prerequisite to install the PhoneGap is the Operating System . PhoneGap requires Windows 7 or Windows Vista Service Pack 2 . Note that installing Windows Phone SDK itself requires pne of the above 
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