You may have already heard at least of Java games (more precisely, MIDlets)
running on almost all current "dumb" phones. These games are all the rage
today, especially with teenagers, which also means there are thousands of
sometimes really high-quality games for ordinary phones, all written using
the portable Java language, ready to be played on (almost) any kind of
mobile phone. Just an example: in THIS HowardForums thread, the topic
starter post lists some (but not all!) games available for the Samsung QVGA
240x320 phones (d600, d900, e900 etc - not only Windows Mobile ones!). Quite
an impressive list, isn't it? And it's just the tip of the iceberg - there
are a lot more games, all waiting for you to purchase, download and run!

No, don't think MIDlets are only for gamers and are absolutely useless
otherwise. You can make a good use of them in the enterprise too. There are
several solutions already for, for example, mobile payment, reservations
etc. done using a MIDlet as opposed to the Web, which is, in a lot of cases,
is much harder to access / operate on a small-screen device. Controlling for
example your bank transfers via SMS can also be less intuitive and/or
require a lot more work / data entry than using a GUI to do this. Other,
known enterprise-related MIDlets are Jupiter, which is basically a financial
data streaming program (also see THIS) and Betfair (also see THIS). Should
you be interested in these "MIDlets in the Enterprise" questions, I really
recommend Michael Juntao Yuan's excellent book "Enterprise J2ME: Developing
Mobile Java Applications" - I've learnt a LOT from it. Highly recommended!


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