Getjar, which started out as a way of distributing Java-based mobile games, has grown to include hosting, phone detection, development support for different models, serving and downloading.

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Besides being able to check your Facebook account, email your girlfriend, call your Mom on the holidays, or play a Java version of Golden Axe, you can take a college class via your mobile phone.

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Google just wanted to develop mobile-phone software that worked well, he argued, adding that existing Java-based phones at the time Android was developed were lacking.

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