Java Midlet = Mobile Java

Aino focuses on sound & vision and Yari is the first phone outside the Japanese market to have gesture gaming. Both phones are Java Platform 8 (JP-8), making it 30 phone series that support MSA, and introduce the new JP-8.5 sub-category with extended functionality of the Java Platform including Sony Ericsson APIs made publicly available for the first time and new liberalized permission settings.

[via: News from Sony Ericsson Developer World]

PlayNow arena with movies is the latest addition to Sony Ericsson’s PlayNow arena content delivery platform, strengthening our commitment to providing unique entertainment experiences on the mobile phone, and offers big screen movies optimized for the mobile phone.

[via: News from Sony Ericsson Developer World]

Google has decided that the first Android Developer Challenge (ADC) isn’t enough so now they have announced the second Android Developer Challenge! The announcement comes with the recent release of Android 1.5, as well as the availability of devices. News around the Net indicate that there will be as many as 20 Android devices in the market before the end of 2009

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Learn how to create a MIDlet that will search for Bluetooth-enabled devices and services, and then allow the user to send a simple note to one of the found devices. Read the tech tip.

[via: SDN Program News]

Java ME SDK 3.0 is a state-of-the-art toolbox for developing mobile applications. It integrates CLDC, CDC, and Blu-ray Disc Java (BD-J) technology into one SDK. Java ME SDK 3.0 is the successor to the popular Java Wireless Toolkit 2.5.2 and Java Toolkit 1.0 for CDC. It provides device emulation, a stand-alone development environment and a set of utilities for rapid development of Java ME applications. Download it now.

[via: SDN Program News]

Sun introduces JavaFX Mobile, which runs directly on Java ME to take advantage of its ubiquity, security, and highly capable feature set. JavaFX 1.1 SDK is now available. Take a look at the JavaFX home page, and read what others are saying about this rich platform.

[via: SDN Program News]

Sony Ericsson is picking up the pace at JavaOne 2009 with a keynote session on June 3, 2009. The audience will be the first to hear about our mobile Java strategy and how to do business by developing mobile Java applications for existing and future Sony Ericsson phones.

With Sony Ericsson’s Themes Creator you can personalize your Sony Ericsson mobile phone as easily as you customize your computer desktop. Check out the Themes Creator v4.0 animated video on YouTube.

Seven recently announced Sony Ericsson phones are added to the Bluetooth Remote Control tool, with version 4.01 now available for download in Windows and OS X formats and in both English and Chinese.

Sony Ericsson’s developer ecosystem is open to anyone who has something to create and a good starting point is to speak to us about Java ME development at 2009 JavaOne Conference (June 2-5, 2009 in San Francisco, USA). By talking to the Developer World team during last year’s event, Evernote is now a signed up business partner – bring your apps and ideas to booth 602 and new opportunities may open up for you too.