J2ME phones on the market
J2ME phones on the market - The following phones currently available in Europe support J2ME in some form or another (or may be upgraded to support J2ME).
Add to that PDA devices such as Palm, Rim's Blackberry and a number of JApanese phones supporting NTT DoCoMo's iAppli service.
So you see, while J2ME is all the rage on the scene, and every manufacturor has announce compatible phones, there aren'øt that many you can go into a store and buy yet. Expect a large number of presentations at CeBit this year, and maybe some time before year's end, the Danish operators will follow their German and Norwegian colleagues and actually introduce services for these phones.
The fact is, that if they (the operators) are ever going to get a decent ROI on all that new infrastructure, J2ME, or some other application download standard is the way to go. The flexibility and handling of copyright issues make it a much more suited to fill the expected bandwisth than anything we've seen so far.
And amongst the first applications available for those lucky enough to have a Siemens SL45i, are some pretty dull games. But at least they have something out there. Although so far, I believe Debitel is the only operator to support actually downloading the applications directly to your phone. Anyone else, and you have to download them to your PC and then sync them across.
