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Google takes a big step forward by moving into mobile and introducing Open Hanset Alliance( OHA ) which includes 34 powerful companies such as Qualcomm, Motorola, Samsung, T-Mobile, Sprint, Skype, LG, HTC, KDDI, DoCoMo and China Mobile,etc. Goal of this alliance is to develop an open source operating system for mobile phones, in other words " an alternative to Symbian OS, Windows mobile and iPhone ". (I'm sure Apple will think about opening their OS and Symbian too). Google's mobile OS will be called " Android " (No "Google" word/logo attached at all .... how humble they are .... ) which is an open source OS built on Linux and Java . Since this mobile OS is available for free of charge for OEM vendors, this will be a major hit for proprietary mobile OS vendors. Further it will give more flexible environment for mobile application developers. And I'm sure ......... this will lead to come up with some more mobile OS distro like in linux des...

In J2ME application development , the size of the j2me application jar file is very important as the application has limited resources in mobile devices. Below you can see some of the points would help you to reduce the size for the jar. Some points for j2me jar size reduction There are many ways to reduce the size of your wireless Java application. * Keep it simple . Simplicity of design can yield robustness, speed, and efficient use of space. * Recompute rather than store . Recomputing a value rather than storing it for later retrieval can save space. As an example consider the following code fragment: * Choose an elegant data structure to store information . You should always consider your options for a data structure to store your information on the device. * Remove unnecessary classes . One way to "keep it simple" is to review your application design and eliminate classes that are not actually needed. * Reduce functionality and features. Is all the functional...

No need to mention , the importance of mobile phone in current era not only for calls but also to enable the access to other service on the move. I have been working on mobile and telco application development for last 6 years with hSenid and it is amazing to see the growth of mobile technologies. We talked about about SMS,MMS, WAP2.0, XHTML,Symbian C++, J2ME......... and NOW Flash Lite. Flash Lite is the latest matured technology which is ready provide rich but light wei ght GUI in mobile phones. I'm sure anyone who is interested in mobile application development would definitly like to know about flash lite. I found a good article , infact a tutorial about Flash Lite in "sony ericsson" web site..... thought of sharing it with you all. Yes.... definitly there will be a bias towards Sony Ericsson, But it is a good starting point. Tutorial link Happy reading.............