today announced that their live mobile video streaming product is coming to a feature phone near you. The Java ME-based application is available in alpha, allowing users with select Nokia and Sony Ericsson feature phones to record and stream video from wherever they are. Initially Qik supports the following handsets: Nokia 5300, Nokia 6300, Nokia…
Sony Ericsson releases Project Capuchin SDK
Sony Ericsson Developer World has recently released Project Capuchin SDK. The SDK — which consists of a set of APIs, a packaging tool and getting-started tutorials — is now available as a free download at the Sony Ericsson Developer World website. Sony Ericsson’s Project Capuchin is an API that combines the richness of Flash Lite…
Sony Ericsson’s Project Capuchin has a new tool – Swf2Jar 1.0
Remember Sony Ericsson’s Project Capuchin which we covered back in May? Basically, the Swedish-Japanese handset maker developed a Java ME API that defines a bridge between the Java ME and Adobe Flash Lite programming environments, making it possible to use Flash Lite tools while still having access to all phone services through Java ME. Now…
emoze brings push-email to JavaME-enabled feature phones
We told ya’ this is coming. Emoze is officially out with the “world’s first push mobile email solution for Java handsets.” The idea is logical – to further expand to feature phone users, who may like the idea of push-email but hate all the hassle and complexity of today’s smartphones. According to emoze’s official release…
fring goes JavaME, Maemo Linux!
fring folks have been busy these days, I can tell. They’ve announced the new minifring app for JavaME-enabled phones which don’t support VoIP. That means the users of Nokia, Sony Ericsson and/or some other feature phones will be able to manage their IM presence, and chat with their buddies on multiple IM networks. Best of…
Mobipocket goes J2ME to bring ebooks to masses
With modern feature phones becoming more powerful these days, it doesn’t surprise to see many of the original smartphone application makers developing J2ME version of their apps. We’ve seen this happening with Epocware, which brought its popular dictionaries to feature phones, and now Mobipocket is trying to do the same thing with its mobile ebook…
Skype launches Java ME application in beta
Skype has recently launched a Java ME based application to allow mobile phone users to take advantage of the low-cost phone calls and chat with their Skype buddies. Still in beta, Skype mobile “thin” client works on about 50 of the most popular Java-enabled mobile phones from Motorola, Nokia, Samsung and Sony Ericsson. The problem…
Epocware/Paragon Software brings its dictionaries to BlackBerrys, Java ME enabled feature phones
Paragon Software/Epocware dictionaries are no longer Symbian and Windows Mobile thing only. The mobile software developer announced that it is bringing its award-winning apps to BlackBerry smartphones, as well as select Java ME enabled feature phones — to reach new customers and expand into new markets. Now, virtually all mobile phone users will be able…
Pill Phone mobile application helps Verizon’s customers get medication information and dosing reminders
Verizon Wireless and VOCEL announced the availability of The Pill Phone, a new Get It Now application that provides users with detailed drug information and automatic dosing reminders, right on their phones. The mobile version of the best-selling medication reference guide (The Pill Book), The Pill Phone application is available exclusively through Verizon Wireless. With…
Zimbra webmail goes Java ME to work with more mobile phones
Recently, Yahoo-owned collaboration suit developer Zimbra announced that users of any Java ME enabled mobile phone will be able to access their Zimbra Collaboration Suite 5.0 email, contacts and calendars using a dedicated mobile application. The mobile app brings such Zimbra features as conversation views, advanced mailbox searches, tagging, calendar management (accept/decline meetings), and more.…