What? What was that? You're trying to program a Java mobile device and you need some help? Well, maybe you need a Q-tip. No, that's not right. Maybe you need a Mobility Tech Tip. Yeah, that's right.

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Mobility Tech Tips

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 Tips to create, test, and deploy 
 applications on Java platforms 
 for mobile and embedded devices, 
 from phonetops to desktops

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Didn't the first George Bush coin the term, "A Thousand Points of Light"? Well here comes not one gPhone, but a thousand gPhones.

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Thousands and thousands of gPhones

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 Armstrong said Nokia sold 40 million 
 devices last year...

 Meanwhile, more than a billion cell 
 phones are built on Sun Microsystems' 
 Java Mobile Edition, the most common 
 platform in the mobile industry.  In 
 a blog post, Sun Chief Executive 
 Jonathan Schwartz said Google's 
 announcement was a "massive 
 endorsement of two of the industry's 
 most prolific free software 
 communities, Java and Linux."

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Sheesh! You can't turn around today without bumping into another story about GoogleFX Mobile (I know, I know, they like to call it Android, Open Platform for Mobile Devices (feh!), but I like shortening it to GoogleFX Mobile, OK?) :-)

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More GoogleFX Mobile News

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 The operating system, based on the open-
 source Linux platform and Sun Microsystems 
 ...Java software, likely will compete with 
 other mobile phone software platforms, 
 such as Microsoft's Windows Mobile, Palm 
 OS and Nokia's own Symbian.  Android will 
 be available on cell phones beginning next 
 year.

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Here's an article from PC World about how Google can get their mobile technology to run on any phone. Well, run it on Java ME technology, naturally. :-) Duh. Google UI on Java ME would be a cool match-up. As the article says, we can then "beat up on Microsoft". Microsoft? I think the article writer has that mixed up. Anyway, they could call it GoogleFX Mobile. As long as they use Java ME, they can call it anything they'd like. ;-)

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Java ME would allow Google Mobile wide reach

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 ...it would be a good idea 
 for Google to partner with 
 Sun, which last year bought 
 SavaJe, a struggling mobile 
 Java operating system 
 developer. "If they're 
 smart, they'd go to Sun and 
 say, 'look, we both want to 
 beat up on Microsoft,'" 
 Delaney said. Google could 
 build a user interface on 
 top of the SavaJe OS and 
 offer an open-development 
 environment to developers, 
 he said.

 "Java would allow Google 
 applications to run on a wide 
 variety of devices," Hazelton 
 agreed. "It could be a way 
 to reach scale." 

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Here's a blog post on gigaom.com that talks about the Google Phone. It uses Java technology as the middleware layer on top of a highly optimized mobile OS.

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Google Phone using Java middleware

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 Google Mobile OS uses a highly 
 optimized Mobile Linux; 
 developers will be able to use 
 a Java Development Kit. Google 
 is said to have developed a 
 highly optimized Java running 
 on top of the OS.

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