Cellity has used Java ME technology in the finest way. It crammed a bunch of functionality into a small, simple app.

See:

Manage your life with Java ME technology

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 Cellity Communicator (download) is an 
 e-mail, SMS, and calling client and 
 service for Java cell phones that's 
 better than it looks.  [It] crams phone 
 calls, conference calls, various tiers 
 of texting, and e-mail into a mobile
 application and still manages to look 
 simple...

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Hey, look! It's Mobile Java. No, not Mobile Java--Mobile Java!

See:

Mobile Java

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 Imagine waking up to the delicious 
 taste of a cappuccino instead of 
 drinking a substance you could use 
 to patch tires. My friends, I 
 introduce the Handpresso.

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Sometimes I just like to post a YouTube video with a tie-in to Java ME for the sole purpose of enjoying the techno music that goes with it.

See:

How to build your own Java ME game

Bwow, chicka-bwow-wow, bmum, chucka-chucka, bwum-bum...

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Looks like this is a new Java ME game for your cell phone that lets you play the Norovirus game and relive the JavaOne 2008 conference. You know, it's the game where you are a Moscone staff member serving up plates of food during this past year's JavaOne 2008 conference. ;-) I'm KIDDING! :-) Sheesh!

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Norovirus, Java mobile edition

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 ...build an eatery empire by seating, 
 serving and churning the clients... It 
 starts out easy, with plenty of time 
 to dedicate to each customer but as 
 more and more clients arrive, the pace 
 can get hectic.  Are you open for 
 business?

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If you write a poem, there really isn't a word you can rhyme with purple, is there? Well, here's a new Java ME mobile phone from Sony Ericsson in purple: the W380. Nurple? Slurple?

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Sony Ericsson Java ME cell phone in purple

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 Extreme Air Snowboarding, QuadraPop, 
 and The Sims 2 are the included Java 
 (J2ME) games, but you can buy more.

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If you've ever had a senior moment and just can't remember the title to the song you're hearing, no worries, just use the Shazam iD Java ME app on your cell phone to sample the music and report back the name of that tune.

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Java ME Music recognition app

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 Shazam iD is compatible with 22 
 Java enabled handsets in the UK 
 and there is a rapid additional 
 handset rollout programme planned 
 for early next year.

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If you ever wanted to look as silly as possible with your Java ME tech-enabled cell phone, running around city streets staring intently at your mobile device, like a crazed treasure hunter, no need to try to dress up like Nicolas Cage from the movie, National Treasure. Play Tourality instead!

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Mobile Outdoor Game

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 Equipped with a PHONE and GPS (integrated 
 or as an external Bluetooth device) the 
 player's task is to reach predefined 
 geographic spots as fast as possible and 
 before opponents.  While the players are 
 on their way - by foot, by bike or any 
 other means they like - their real 
 position is tracked by the GPS.

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Widgets, gadgets, applets, doo-dads, thing-a-ma-jiggies... It's all the same--little tiny mobile Java ME tech-enabled apps that are customizable, mini-apps, minapps, mapps, m's. Things that show stock quotes, sports scores, weather reports, news snippets, blog summaries, blah, blah, blah, you know the drill, all on your cell phone.

Aricent has their Celltop that they are making available now on Java ME technology (they used to only be on BREW uiOne).

See:

Aricent wisely moves their Celltop to Java ME

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 It provides easy access to data 
 services by reducing the obstacle 
 of multiple click-throughs. 
 Celltop was launched on selected 
 Alltel Wireless phones in January 
 2007.

 Now, Aricent wants to expand the 
 app’s availability by making the 
 Celltop software development kit 
 available for both BREW uiOne and 
 J2ME handset platforms.

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This looks like it will be a fun Java ME game. You are a 12 pound pile of poo cruising around your Java ME cell phone, looking throughout the colorful sewers for gold coins to eat, because apparently that's what you do... if you're a 12 pound pile of poo.

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Gish Mobile: Big Pile of Poo, Java ME game

It's got catchy music. I give them that. I like that they have a Deathmatch, multi-player mode, where you can do battle controlling your pile of poo against another Java ME technology-enabled pile of poo. It makes sense, in a perverse kind of way... :-)

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Our Java ME CDC/CVM group helped Ken Russell get the nVidia APX 2500 demo running for the JavaOne 2008 conference

See:

Java ME CDC rocks!

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 This stack includes the Connected Device 
 Configuration (CDC) and Foundation Profile 
 (FP), but no graphics stack. At that point 
 we had a headless Java VM with JNI support. 
 We also compiled in the java.nio Buffer 
 classes from the JSR-239 reference 
 implementation, because these are used to 
 hand data down to the OpenGL layer in both 
 the desktop JSR-231 and mobile JSR-239 
 implementations. However, we were not 
 aiming to run JSR-239 on the device.

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There was a lot of good stuff from this year's JavaOne conference (and some not so good stuff with a teensy problem with the Norovirus :-P :-) ). Sprint promoted their Titan specification at JavaOne this year. Cool stuff.

See:

Sprint Titan: Next Gen Java ME technology

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 To help developers remain involved 
 in creating applications for Sprint, 
 the company is using JavaOne to promote 
 Titan, its next generation mobile Java 
 platform that utilizes tools and 
 resources traditionally used for 
 desktop program development. 

"The Titans later gave birth to other Titans, notably the children of Hyperion (Helios, Eos, and Selene), the daughters of Coeus (Leto and Asteria), and the sons of Iapetus — Prometheus..."

So, the daughters of the Titan named Coeus, were Leto and Asteria. I guess if you were going to create project code names, you'd have a plethora of ideas by just looking at Greek mythology... or from medical terms. Hmmm... how about calling your next software project, code name: Norovirus? :-)

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Mpowerplayer received the Duke's Choice Award during the JavaOne 2008 conference. Not too shabby!

See:

Mpowerplayer wins award

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 Using Java technology, Mpowerplayer 
 expands the audience for mobile games 
 to include casual online gamers, 
 letting them easily find, try, and 
 buy mobile games and applications. 
 Consumers discover and sample a wide 
 range of content on their PC and then 
 transfer their purchases to their 
 mobile phone.

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If you're under 40, you don't know what the initials CSNY stand for. Too bad. Look it up on Wikipedia if you're interested. You know the words, man. C'mon, sing along! Far out...

 You who are on the road
 Must have [Java ME source] code that you can live byyyyyy
 And so become yourself
 Because the past is just a good byyyyyye.
 ...

Neil Young at JavaOne 2008 conference

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 Neil Young and Sun will make an announcement 
 during the event, and provide a special 
 demonstration of a new multi-media music 
 project.  Come hear and see what Java 
 technology means to Neil Young.

 JavaOne and CommunityOne are among the 
 biggest conferences in the world for free 
 and open-source software, attracting... more 
 than 6 million software developers worldwide, 
 and powers more than 5.5 billion devices 
 including mobile phones, smart cards, Blu-ray 
 players, set-top boxes, PCs, car navigation 
 systems and more. 

And for those under 40, yes, David Crosby is the biological father of Melissa Etheridge's and Julie Cypher's children. I'm not sure if those kids have long hair and moustaches, but I bet they can sing--and rock! :-)

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If you think that Java ME technology is used for just fun and games on cell phones, think again. The UN Foundation has released a report on how Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) use cell phones and Java ME technology to help with social activism around the world.

See:

Use Java ME tech for world activism

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 ...thirty provincial health 
 supervisors... were trained in how 
 to use  EpiSurveyor... The health 
 officers then used EpiSurveyor to 
 collect management data about 
 public health clinics...  In 
 Zambia... the supplied PDAs and 
 EpiSurveyor software were used by 
 health officers to conduct a 
 post-measles vaccination campaign 
 coverage survey...

 EpiSurveyor incorporates... a 
 Java-based engine that can run on 
 personal digital assistants (PDAs), 
 smart phones, and soon, common 
 mobile phones.

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