Testing your Java-enabled mobile phone

Eversince I started the javamidlet.com web site, I have been looking for a java mobile software that I can use for testing checking and comparing the different J2ME capabilities of mobile phones. If you are a java mobile software developer, you may also want to check out the J2ME capabilities of different mobile phones that you intend to support. Here’s a software that you might find useful.

TastePhone is a java midlet which allows users to test their Java-enabled mobile phone. By using the Tastephone java midlet everyone can “taste” the performance of a java-enabled mobile phone.

For instance running the TastePhone java midlet on several of Sony Ericsson and Nokia mobile phones, you’ll find out that:

• A Sony Ericsson P990i has a Java CPU of 58.7MHz which is as fast as a PIII at 1,056.6MHz without JIT.
• A Sony Ericsson M600 has a Java CPU of 77.2MHz which is as fast as a PIII at 1,389.6MHz without JIT.
• A Nokia N80 mobile phone has a Java CPU of 82.1MHz which is as fast as a PIII at 1,477MHz without JIT.
• A Nokia N95 mobile phone has a Java CPU of 112.3MHz which is as fast as a PIII at 2,021.4MHz without JIT.

After running the java midlet software you will get information about the mobile phone’s MIDP & CLDC version, the java virtual machine processor speed and it’s comparable speed to a desktop computer, RAM size, flash size (RMS), screen resolution and other screen capabilities, optional APIs provided by JSRs likeBluetooth, SMS messaging, multimedia and location services.

You can find out more about TastePhone at the project home page. To find information about other cell phones that have been tested using TastePhone go to the test results page (the html page is quite large so it will take some time to load).