It's so nice when something is already pre-installed when you buy it: leather seats in your car, central a/c in your house, Java ME technology in your cell phone, 120mm smooth bore cannon on your M1A1 Abrams tank...

See:

New Palm Treo Pro comes with Java ME pre-installed

Here's a quote:

 And there is also a AGPS like 
 utility that downloads GPS 
 satellite data for faster signal 
 acquisition times and a 
 streaming media tool that adds 
 support for some streaming 
 internet content such as 
 YouTube... A J2ME mobile Java 
 client is also on board for good 
 measure.

Hinkmond

Holy comics, Batman! I hope they make Batman and Robin available as a Mobile Comic for your Java ME technology-enabled cell phone soon!

See:

Java ME tech-enabled comics

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 Paramount's mobile comics are 
 currently available in MMS and 
 J2ME formats in the United States, 
 Australia, Europe and India, and 
 will be made available by download 
 through key carriers worldwide. 

Ray Gans forwarded this link of a geeky guy video recording his unboxing of a new Java ME tech-enabled Samsung i900 cell phone. Yeah, yeah, yeah... We all know how Samsung marketing loves to launch their products with a lot of fanfare: marching bands, dancing girls, fireworks, blah, blah, blah.

But... this is way COOL! :-)

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Break out the marching band for the new Samsung i900

That must've been tough to get the right sized air holes in the box... Wonder how they did that..? ;-)

Hinkmond

Oh-ah, oh-ah. I met your children. What did you tell them? Video ringtones killed the music ringtones. Video ringtones killed the music ringtones.

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Video ringtones killed the music ringtones

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 Vringo is a video sharing 
 community which allows you to 
 find and create video 
 ringtones (or Vringos) and 
 then share them with your 
 friends...  You choose the 
 clips you'd like your friends 
 to see and they choose the 
 clips they'd like you to see.

Hinkmond

It doesn't say it has Java ME technology, but this cool new cell phone from Epoq, called the EGP-PP01 (rolls off the tongue, doesn't it?), can be used to project images and videos from your mobile device to a screen. (NOTE: In the photo, the Epoq has seemingly ganked the iPhone icons for their screen! Lordy! Can you say, "Copyright infringement?" Oh yeah, Epoq is a company in China... Forgot... Olympics are over, China is back to normal again. :-) )

See:

Show your own mobile movies and slides

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 Unveiled recently, the Epoq EGP-PP01 
 is the first mobile phone in the 
 world that comes with a built-in 
 projector.

Hinkmond

There's a Java ME browser app called Boopsie that InfoSync World says is a good way to access the Facebook mobile site.

See:

Boopsie Oopsie lets you read Facebook

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 There's also an application called 
 Boopsie, supporting Symbian, Java, 
 BlackBerry, Windows Mobile and Palm 
 OS.  Most CDMA phones do not offer 
 dedicated Facebook applications yet, 
 but their mobile browsers should do 
 a decent job accessing Facebook's 
 mobile site.

Here's a video showing a demo of Aurora from B1te which is an Java ME app for your cell phone to browse and view YouTube videos.

See:

Java ME app, Aurora, to browse YouTube

Well, if you are needing to see Evolution of Dance or Tom Cruise jumping on a couch for the thousandth time, I guess here ya go...

Hinkmond

Here's an interesting programming contest that bans iPhone and Google Android devices, but instead includes Java ME technology. Hurray! JavaWorld and xconomy.com both pointed out how the recent AT&T "Fast Pitch New England" contest excludes the iPhone and Google Android platforms for consideration. To win their mobile app development contest that lasts until Sept.. 30th, you must live in New England and you must not use a loser device like an iPhone or Google Android (maybe because there are no Android devices! Ya think?) ;-)

See:

AT&T Fast Pitch New England contest bans iPhone & Android

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 Perhaps eager to remind software 
 developers that the Apple iPhone 
 isn’t the only game in town—or 
 even its only game in town— AT&T 
 is sponsoring a contest for New 
 England-based makers of mobile 
 applications for competing 
 platforms.

 ...AT&T is asking software 
 developers to submit applications 
 that run on the non-Apple devices 
 that the company sells, including 
 those based on the Java, Palm OS, 
 RIM Blackberry, Symbian, and Windows 
 Mobile...

Hinkmond

The iPhone in many ways reminds me of the Guess brand of jeans of the late 1980s: all flash, no substance. Back in those days (in the 1980s), I wore Levi's jeans because they did their job which was to (oddly enough) be a pair of durable blue jeans, fit well, and cost a fair price. But, there was another brand of jeans at the time called Guess jeans, about twice the price of Levi's and didn't last as long and weren't as comfortable. Well, people loooooved Guess jeans, wanted to be seen wearing Guess jeans, wore them with the label proudly displayed, and didn't really care that they weren't a good pair of jeans.

My college roommate called up his parents and whined at them to buy him new pairs of Guess jeans, because everybody wore them. "But, dad, I need to have Guess jeans! You don't get it! All the popular people wear them!"

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Dr. Mac: iPhone not really a good phone

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 That all changed Saturday afternoon 
 when my 1-day old iPhone 3G had a 
 catastrophic failure and froze at 
 the Apple startup screen.  I tried 
 every trick in the book to no avail 
 before swallowing my pride and 
 heading to my local Apple Store at 
 The Domain in Austin, TX.

And, see: BusinessWeek: iPhone not really a good phone

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 Complaints over dropped calls and 
 choppy Web connections on Apple's 
 iPhone 3G have sparked a wave of 
 debate in the blogosphere over the 
 root cause of the problems.  Two 
 well-placed sources tell 
 BusinessWeek.com the glitches are 
 related to a chip inside Apple's 
 music-playing cell phone.

"But, it's an iPhone! Everybody's got one! I look soooo coooool because I have one."

Gag me with a spoon (popular quote from the 1980s). I'll just keep wearing my Levi's jeans and use my Java ME cell phone (which works, by the way). I'll leave the iPhone for the tragically hip and the hopelessly carrier-signal-less people of the world. :-)

Hinkmond

Lots of developers and wireless consumers are finding out that it is cheaper to use Java ME technology for IM mobile apps on their cell phones than to use SMS text messaging on certain carriers who charge an arm and a leg. Twitter recently decided to end their SMS support in the UK because of this.

And, here's an article about how the Java ME tech-enabled MXit app in South Africa is letting mobile users communicate much better with each other (and those on PCs) than by using the more costly SMS text messaging on their mobile phones.

See:

Cheaper to use Java ME

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 To access MXit, the cellphone 
 has to have Internet access, be 
 a GPRS (general radio service) 
 and 3G-enabled cellphone with 
 java viewing software support.

Hinkmond

Here's an article on how we've launched the open source project for the Light-Weight UI Toolkit (LWUIT - pronounced LOO-it).

See:

Java ME LWUIT, a unifying UI

Here's a quote:

 "This software will also help 
 address the mobile industry's 
 fragmentation issue by enabling 
 developers to create a single 
 interface that will work anywhere 
 Java is found."

Hinkmond

Mobile Enterprise - the Final Frontier. These are the voyages of Sun's Mobile Enterprise Platform (MEP). Its five-year mission: To explore strange new devices. To seek out new cell phones and new services. To boldly go where no mobile enterprise sofware has gone before.

See:

Sun Gives Enterprises a New Java ME Option

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 The platform is based on open 
 standards, and is built around 
 Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server, 
 MySQL and Java ME.  It provides 
 two-way data synchronization 
 with security, device management 
 and offline access features for 
 enterprises with Sun servers in 
 their infrastructure.

Everybody sing along: Ahh, ahhhhh, ahh-ahh, ah, ahhh... Yes, the Enterprise is very important to Java ME technology. It's got phasers, photon torpedoes, and tons and tons of cash to spend on ways to sync your data to your Java ME cell phone.

The 3 best words you like to hear when it comes to Java ME games: free, free, and free. Here's QuicklyBored.com's take on how to get around the carrier's stranglehold and get all those Java ME games that you've ever wanted... for free!

See:

Free, free, free Java ME games

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 For the following walkthrough 
 we’ll be using the Nokia N95. 
 The reason being that it’s a 
 great phone and uses Java games 
 which are the most ubiquitous 
 (god I love that word). 

Hinkmond

From what I can tell about this Java ME game, you're not just a monkey in a clear ball rolling around collecting bananas, but you're a super monkey in a clear ball rolling around collecting bananas. Yeah. Much different... riiiight.

See:

Get Super Monkey Ball Tip n Tilt

Well, whatever the storyline is, it sure is darn catchy... Makes me want to see what's on the next level...

Hinkmond

David N. Welton pointed out (in one of my blog post comments) that he has a cool tool for writing MIDlets from a Web browser using his and Wolfgang Kechel's open source Mobile scripting language called Hecl.

See:

Heck, it's a Mobile scripting language called Hecl

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 The Hecl Programming Language is a 
 high-level, open source scripting 
 language implemented in Java.  It 
 is intended to be small, extensible, 
 extremely flexible, and easy to 
 learn and use.  Infact, it's small 
 enough that it runs on J2ME-enabled 
 cell phones! 

Hinkmond