Archive for the ‘Platforms: J2me’ Category

S60 J2me: Security Prompting Update

October 22nd, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: J2me | 1 Comment »

Unlike native Symbian games, J2me games have always been bothered with tight security restrictions on S60 devices, leading to endless popups, time and time again.

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Motion Gaming for Older SE’s!?

June 1st, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: J2me | No Comments »

Pocket Gamer has an interesting rumour on their website. It seems that SonyEricsson has made a deal with GestureTek in order to use their technologies to enable motion gaming on older handsets.

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Nokia Releases SNAP 2.0

May 6th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: J2me | No Comments »

Nokia Nokia has released the second generation of their SNAP SDK. With Nokia SNAP, developers can integrate carrier grade multiplayer and community functionality into their mobile games and applications.

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Java Goes Open Source

April 25th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: J2me | No Comments »

Sun Sun has confirmed that it will provide the last bits of Java under an open-source license. With this announcement, we can finally call Java a full, open-source platform.

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Rumour: Nokia N-Gage Launches This Week

April 1st, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: J2me | No Comments »

Ngage_2 The guys over at Mobile Entertainment Magazine have picked up several rumours that the N-Gage full launch might happen this week, more or less at the same time of CTIA in Las Vegas.

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Hooper Creates Swiss Knife of Porting

April 1st, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: J2me | 1 Comment »

Hooper Dutch developer Hooper has announced to release a new open source wrapping tool that takes Nokia builds to any mobile device.

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Java Coming to iPhone and iPod Touch

March 10th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: J2me | No Comments »

Sun It took a while, but after a long period of waiting, but Java support for the iPhone and iPod Touch has finally been announced by Sun and Apple.

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Motion Welder Launches

January 23rd, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: J2me | 2 Comments »

Indie mobile game developers and artists or small groups of mobile game
developers are asked to check out the free motion welder tool.

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Metismo Simplefies J2me Development

December 10th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: J2me | No Comments »

Metismo Metismo has released Bedrock, a development framework that helps developers to create better mobile games without worrying to much about device specifications. On top of that, it even ports to other platforms.