It's so easy to program in Java ME programming language that some say it's a Breeze.

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Breeze converts HTML/JavaScript to Java ME

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 Breeze takes HTML, JavaScript or 
 Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) code 
 and converts it into J2ME code, also 
 known as the Java Platform, Micro 
 Edition or Java ME...
 Although J2ME phones still have a 
 lot of variation - including screen 
 size, number of buttons and so forth 
 - Breeze reduces the complexity to a 
 single run on a simulator, and 
 creates multiple versions for 
 different phones,

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SK Telecom and Nokia are joining hands with Java ME technology for Mobile Telematics enabling Java ME apps to control your automobile. Uh. Scary... <:-} But, still nice to see companies joining hands and hearts and voices over Java ME technology.

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SK Telecom and Nokia join hands over Java ME tech

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 They agreed to make their telematics 
 technologies compatible with each 
 other’s, said SK Telecom.  The 
 collaboration was agreed after SK 
 Telecom’s “Telematics API for Java 
 ME” was approved by the Java Community 
 Process (JCP) and became an 
 international standard.

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Google's Android is experiencing additional problems on top of the troubles they already have. So, what else is new? Here's a Wall Street Journal article on the subject of Google, Inc. slipping their delivery of Android handsets.

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Android is late, it's late, for a very important date

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 Google Inc. is learning that changing the 
 cellphone industry isn't easy.
 ...
 Google now says that the handsets won't 
 arrive until the fourth quarter.  And some 
 cellular carriers and makers of programs 
 that work with Android are struggling to 
 meet that schedule, people familiar with
 the situation say.

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Samsung is launching a Web site for educating people about Blu-ray (which has the BD-Java flavor of Java ME CDC) and for providing tech support.

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Samsung Blu-ray re-education camps

Here's a quote:

 ...if you’re like most people out 
 there who might not even know the 
 difference yet between Blu-ray and 
 regular DVD, and have questions 
 like “Will Blu-ray discs play in my 
 current DVD player?” then Samsung 
 wants you to head over to its new 
 Blu-ray Resource Center on its 
 website. 

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Here's a study from Opera Software that shows that men outnumber women on Java ME tech-enabled cell phones almost nine to one! Holy weenie roast.

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Java ME tech-enabled men outnumber women

Here's a quote:

 Opera Software's latest "State of 
 the Mobile Web" report published 
 today reveals an interesting trend 
 -- that men outnumber women on the 
 mobile Web almost nine to one. The 
 company's May report essentially 
 looked at what people do on the 
 mobile Web, this one looks at 
 demographic trends.
...
 Opera Mini is known as the world's 
 most popular Web browser for mobile 
 phones, and runs on more than 800 
 different handsets, making it 
 available to the widest range of 
 consumers worldwide. Almost every 
 phone with Java can run Opera Mini. 
 The Web browser is completely free 
 for anyone to download and use, 
 available from 
 http://www.operamini.com/. 

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Java ME technology is doing well holding off Android and iPhone developers. Here's a survey that shows Java ME still holds a majority (along with .NET CF) as the platform most targeted by developers.

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Bam! Bam! Bam! Java ME holds ground

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 “But both .Net Compact Framework and 
 Java ME are very strong and well 
 entrenched in the wireless development 
 community, so it’s hard to imagine any 
 competing platform dislodging either 
 of them any time soon.”

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It's tiny. It twitters. It's a Java ME tech-enabled version of Twitter for your cell phone.

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Use Twitter from a Java ME mobile device

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 This is where TinyTwitter comes in: 
 a free, tiny, widely compatible [J]ava 
 app, that twitters via your GPRS data 
 connection(usually much cheaper than 
 SMS).

 Simple and effective, this application 
 allows you to send twitterings, receive 
 those of your friends and that’s about 
 all.  But it works on most mobile 
 phones, it’s easy to set up and use. 
 It simply works.  What else could a 
 Twitter fan wish for?

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The Sony Ericsson F305 is rumored to have a motion controller inside it to play Java ME games just like you would using the Wii motion controlled game controller. Wee! What fun! Or, should I say, Wii! What fun! Instead of the PlayStation Portable, this would be the PlayStation Phone.

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Wii-like control with Sony Ericsson F305

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 ...that's not to say gaming isn't 
 playing a more prominent role for 
 the handset maker – in fact, it's 
 been big for a while now, with 
 Sony Ericsson spreading Java 3D 
 throughout its handset range.

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Gameloft (a Java ME game developer) recently was named "Best-Ranked Mobile Game Publisher" by Pocket Gamer. They've been selling Java ME games for cell phones for quite a while now and seem to have perfected their development.

See:

Gameloft kicks butt as a Java ME game publisher

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 Gameloft, a leading developer and 
 publisher of games for mobile phones 
 and consoles, today announced they 
 were named "Best-Ranked Mobile Game 
 Publisher" in an independent study 
 conducted by Pocket Gamer.

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Maximizer Software is extending the reach of Java ME technology to give mobile database support directly to and from your SD card on your cell phone.

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McObject: Two all beef patties, special database, on a SD card

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 Maximizer will integrate McObject's 
 Perst™ Lite open source, object-oriented 
 embedded database into its mobile CRM 
 software for BlackBerry devices.  Perst 
 Lite, through its support for Sun's [sic: 
 IBM's] JSR 75 specification, will enable CRM 
 data to be stored on flash memory-based 
 Secure Digital (SD) cards to extend storage 
 capacity while on the road – making it 
 possible to access more customer 
 information in real-time, instead of 
 relying on networks to download new data 
 to the device.

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People are gushing, gushing, over the Samsung Instinct carried by Sprint. They love it, like a schoolboy smitten by a comely classmate sweetheart. And he wants to read her poetry--sappy, syrupy poetry.

See:

People gushing about the Sprint Instinct

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 _ Sprint has said the Instinct will 
 be open to third-party software 
 developers, and its software is based 
 on Java, a ubiquitous programming 
 language that should make it easy to 
 adapt existing applications.

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Gameloft released a Java ME version of their classic game, The Oregon Trail.

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Java ME Oregon Trail

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 You have died of cholera.  Sarah has 
 broken a leg.  You are out of food. 
 The wagon trail from Missouri to 
 Oregon filled with misfortune and 
 outright disaster.  But if you were 
 equal parts clever and lucky, you 
 pulled it off and reached the 
 promised land of the Willamette 
 Valley.

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Do you prefer Coke over Pepsi, Mary Ann over Ginger, Boxers over Briefs..? Well, you'll have to choose another comparison: Java ME vs. FlashLite. Easy choice when you look at the following table:

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Taste test: Java ME vs. FlashLite

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 Each platform has its own strengths 
 and weaknesses when it comes to 
 mobile application development. 
 Flash Lite-enabled devices are 
 really good at displaying graphics 
 and multimedia, which lends itself 
 to several gaming applications... 
 devices that support the Java ME MSA 
 platform are the obvious choice when 
 you need to communicate with Bluetooth 
 devices, use location based services, 
 capture audio/video, render 3D graphics, 
 or perform any form of asynchronous 
 communication

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Holy crap! Here's a report saying that some iPhone games in Europe will cost between 17-18 euros from iTunes. That's more than 4x a gallon of ethanol-inflated gas for your car in the U.S.! Thank G*d, Java ME games are the greener alternative and still cost around the same price as a McDonald's Happy Meal (sometimes even priced instead the same as the free toy surprise inside that Happy Meal. See: Free Java ME Games)

See:

iPhone games will cost an arm and a leg

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 "Their games will be sold in iTunes 
 for €17-18," he says, in an interview 
 for our new sister site PocketGamer.biz.

 That's three and a half times the 
 standard price for Java games

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Hoppiness is just around the corner! Hop-on is launching their version of anti-iPhone Java ME tech-enabled cell phones. One is even disposable, since it's priced at $10.

See:

Get your Hop-On Anti-iPhone

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 HOP1808 "dual sim" phone, which 
 will offer a camera, optional 
 Bluetooth, an integrated FM tuner, 
 GPRS, and video playback capability, 
 and the HOP1809 will be a Java/Brew 
 handset with Bluetooth and an 
 integrated camera.

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