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Siemens is now releasing a major restructured version of its Mobility Toolkit (MTK).
It is a set of emulators, control and integration utilities and preverifiers for J2ME and Series 60 development.
Mobility Toolkit is supported by and easily plugs in to the leading IDE for Java (such as Borland JBuilder or Sun Microsystems Sun One Studio)

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This release is based on the Motorola SDK v5.2.1 for J2ME™. It is a KVM-based implementation that supports MIDP/CLDC. Additionally the Licensee Open Class “Lightweight Windowing Toolkit” or LWT is supported in this release.

There are actually two emulators in this release of software. Each is designed to support a specific group of Motorola handsets.

You can use the Launchpad.exe application to simplify the execution of your MIDlets. Simply select the target handset and language, and enter the JAD file, and click launch button. There are many other options that are described in Motorola J2ME™ SDK User’s Guide.

The following phones are supported in each emulator:

Emulator M.1: A728, A760/A760i, A768/A768i.

Emulator M.3: A780, E680/E680i.

Download the tool from official Motorola site: Motorola J2ME™ SDK v.5.4.2 for Linux OS Products
(free registration is required)

On January 17th, BenQ Mobile, the new business group of BenQ Corporation, unveiled its new consumer brand BenQ-Siemens and set out a 2006 strategy for asserting its position in the mobile handset industry. Forged from a complementary and dynamic partnership between the Asian consumer electronics group BenQ and the former Siemens handset business, the new company will focus on the 3G arena and using the multimedia strengths of BenQ to create a clearly differentiated product proposition.

On February 14th 2005, Siemens 5th Developer Conference took place during the 3GSM World Congress.
More than 100 developers and company representatives from 23 countries attended the conference and the conference party afterwards and made this event a great success.
Apart from the excellent opportunity to meet with Siemens Communications experts and fellow developers, attendees could find out very latest about many areas of interest such as opportunities in the IMS/SIP application market, new trends in JavaTM development, multiplayer game development and developing applications for Siemens mobile phones.