John McCready is senior vice president of marketing for SavaJe Technologies, developers of a Java technology-based mobile operating platform. The SavaJe-based Jasper S20 mobile phone was recently named “Device of the Show” at the 2006 JavaOne Conference. The SavaJe Mobile Platform simplifies and accelerates development of customizable, richly branded and secure user interfaces across mobile feature phone handsets.
Java, in the form of the Java 2 Platform Micro Edition (J2ME), has become a
prerequisite for all future mobile handsets for at least the next seven to
nine years. Not only will the core applications needed for the user
experience be created in Java, it will also serve as the basis for the
lucrative downloadable application market - the Java segment of which is
currently projected to exceed $15 billion by 2008.
If there are any remaining questions as to the pivotal role Java is destined
to play in the mobile industry, consider the following numbers. By mid-2006,
the installed base of Java enabled handsets will cross the billion-unit mark,
with over 35 vendors already offering upwards of 600 different Java-enabled
handset models. Furthermore, over four million software developers, per 3G
Americas' estimates in mid-2005, are now involved in creating J2ME-specific
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John McCready is senior vice president of marketing for SavaJe Technologies, developers of a Java technology-based mobile operating platform. The SavaJe-based Jasper S20 mobile phone was recently named “Device of the Show” at the 2006 JavaOne Conference. The SavaJe Mobile Platform simplifies and accelerates development of customizable, richly branded and secure user interfaces across mobile feature phone handsets.
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