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Mobile Services for Java-enabled Devices on 3G Wireless Networks

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Overview The usage of mobile devices has outpaced that of PCs, with mobile phone usage surpassing PC ownership. Gartner group estimates that by 2003, there will be 1 billion mobile phone users and by then, the mobile phone will have become the ihde-facto standard consumer e-commerce device. In January 2001, NTT DoCoMo launched its iAppli service, allowing mobile users to download Java applications on their iMode phones. By October of the same year, 7 million users had signed up for the service.

Nokia announced plans to deliver 50 million Java-enabled devices by the end of 2002, whilst the ARC analyst firm estimates that 180 million Java-enabled handsets will be in use in 2002, and more than 400 million in 2003.

The mobile handset industry is transitioning from growth of their user base as the primary driver of unit volume demand, to shorter product lifecycles and increasing demand for richer interactive applications on the device. Companies such as Siemens, Motorola, NTT, Nokia, Compaq, and HP are working on a new generation of mobile device, the so-called iocommunicatorlw. A communicator is a mobile device bigger than a phone, but smaller than a Pocket PC. It combines both voice and wireless data capabilities.

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