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To: Quincy who wrote (54374)	8/9/2006 7:16:41 PM
From: pyslent	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 197636

what 4 J2ME applications did you choose? For my Samsung A920 (an EVDO phone), I use the following: 1) Infospace Find It!: a mapping and directory service that accesses the phone's Snaptrack chip to provide location-based search results and driving directions. This is offered from Sprint for certain phones for a monthly subscription of $3/mo. 2) Opera Mini: an excellent proxy-based html-browser that re-formats web pages for optimized viewing on small screens. I read and post to SI using this app at least 50% of the time. Free! To download over the air, point your Java-enabled phone's web browser to (PC-based web-browsers will be directed to an info page) mini.opera.com 3) Google Maps Mobile: a mobile-optimized front end to the Google Maps database. Over EVDO, the ability to dynamically pan and zoom has to be seen to believed. Nifty satellite view option as well. Great also for directory searches and directions, although not GPS-enabled. Latest version overlays real-time traffic. IMO, this is hands-down the best mobile application ever released. To download over the air, point your Java-enabled phone's web browser to (again PC-based web-browsers will be directed to an info page): google.com 4) Flurry Mail: Access POP mail and RSS feeds. I use it due to the lack of other real alternatives in J2ME pop clients. It can not access on-phone files, such as photos, for attachments (whereas a BREW client could, in theory), but Flury has a decent feature set otherwise. Sign up and they will send you an sms with a link for downloading over the air. flurry.com I should mention that I also have a Sprint purchased version of Tetris on my phone, so that makes 5 :). All these apps were downloaded over the air without incident. I use Mapquest Traffic, Vindigo MovieGoer, DrinkNation, BackupAssistant, MobileIM, EbayWireless, and Tetris all the time on Brew/Verizon. This application list you provided for Verizon's BREW does seem more compelling than I initially gave them credit for. OTOH, you can't beat the price of the J2ME apps I use.