| The mobile application has come a very long ways | | | | market and no application intended for general |
| from the crude hangman game and the basic phone | | | | distribution is complete unless there is a version for |
| book accessed by a lot of thumbing and fumbling | | | | the BlackBerry. |
| back in the day. Today mobile applications can have | | | | There are other smart phones on the market and |
| much of the flexibility, if not the size of any | | | | eventually one will become the next big name that |
| application running in the home computer. Mobile | | | | every mobile application released will have at a |
| application development may focus on a particular | | | | version to fit. However, until that time, one of the |
| phone model, or platform or it can be intended for a | | | | most popular languages for mobile application |
| wider market. | | | | development is the JavaME, which covers many of |
| Devilishly clever and addictive games, applications to | | | | the top brands in cell phones. The developer who |
| bring Wall Street and the Stock Market right into the | | | | hopes his application reaches as wide an audience as |
| Blackberry and multimedia apps are easily found for | | | | possible will generally choose a language such as this. |
| today's smart phones. Most phone carriers will offer | | | | Mobile phone users are dedicated users and the |
| their own little download store where applications | | | | BlackBerry earned the nickname CrackBerry simply |
| that will run on their particular phone are available for | | | | because users can access mail, twitter, use ICQ or |
| sale. It is all available for a price and can add | | | | even Google talk right from their phone. Smart |
| functionality to their phone beyond anything ever | | | | phones have helped staying connected reach hitherto |
| believed possible. | | | | unknown heights and the cell phone can be seen |
| Of course for every application available, there are | | | | almost anywhere you look. This makes for a |
| multiple software programmers who have worked | | | | tremendous market for application developers for cell |
| behind the scenes to provide the development for | | | | phones. |
| the newest application only for that particular brand | | | | The mobile app store is a moneymaker for many |
| of phone. Java ME has become a favored | | | | mobile phone services. While in the first decade of |
| development platform for applications intended to run | | | | 2000, ring tones were must have for any cell phone, |
| on several different devices. This is a safe choice for | | | | times have changed. A smart phone is judged by the |
| developers who simply created an application for | | | | mobile phone applications it sports or supports. |
| personal pleasure or plan to market it to the cell | | | | The smart phones support applications intended to |
| phone companies. | | | | appeal to a younger market as well as a 20 |
| The Java ME platform can run applications, which | | | | something market. Social connection, financial |
| take up no more than 1MB including data. This can | | | | information and multimedia capabilities appear to be a |
| cover many functions and Java ME combined with | | | | focus of this popular device and the multitudes of |
| JSR help to allow the phone user limited access to | | | | applications that can run on it. This market share has |
| the software while restricting certain functions. | | | | helped BlackBerry to dominate the smart phone |
| Blackberry phones command a large share of the | | | | market. |