Sun anounced mobile.java

Sun Microsystems has announced the launch of mobile.java.com, a site that offers mobile Java technology-based applications for purchase and download, along with information for consumers about Java technology and the Java brand.

Subscribers on more than 250 wireless carriers world-wide can access the new site via a web browser on any Java-powered mobile device (cell phone, PDA, etc).

According to Sun, the new mobile Web site is a companion site to Sun's
java.com, the popular consumer entertainment site for Java-powered games, productivity tools, etc, and the global home to "Get Java Free" for the desktop.

Upon its debut, mobile.java.com will already contain a range of Java-powered mobile applications including: Action game Cannon Fodder,
racing game Lotus Challenge, timed puzzle game Sudoku Solver, a winter
wonderland-themed game called Snow Doku, and NetChess that enables
interactive games with live Chess-masters around the world.

K P Unnikrishnan, marketing director, Sun Microsystems India, said,
"Sun's java.com, the popular consumer entertainment site for Java-powered games, productivity tools, etc, has met with huge success from developers and users alike. Java.com has seen unprecedented growth with more than one million new visitors added per month from more than 210 countries."

"The decision to start mobile.java.com was to complement this site, and to also leverage the strength of the Java brand and readily deliver the content consumers are looking for in their mobile handsets. World-wide, there are over 3 billion handsets that are Java-enabled, and this number is expected to further grow over the next three years. This site will help us address this huge audience. It will also help address the developer community, by providing them with a platform to showcase their applications that have been developed on Java," Unnikrishnan said.

On mobile.java.com, Java developers can sell and deliver their games,
ringtones, videos and other applications directly to users world-wide on any network, and use Bango - the mobile content enabler, to bill consumers anywhere in the world for their content. Powered by Bango's "browse and buy" technology, developers retain total flexibility and control over product offerings and pricing. This "direct-to-consumer" approach operates in conjunction with mobile carriers' content portals, and offers consumers a range of ways to pay depending on the network that they are on.