How can I upload Java applications? Is it hard to run Java applications? It really is very a breeze to do this, but doing so a little know how. Here are some steps (along with some useful pics) that you try to see if they work for you.

This article assumes you prefer to use a normal windows based PC to download the java apps and then transfer them to your mobile phone (unless your phone has internal memory the Java applications need to be written on a micro SD card (or whatever other memory card your phone uses), which is afterwards placed into your cell phone). Also, the contents of this article was written to be a all around review for all java mobile phones, but should be of particular interest to folks who ever gotten an unbranded mobile phone made in China.

Step 1.

Find out if your phone can run Java applications. For famous brands, for example iPhone, see if you can find a Java icon or take some to to do a google search. For non brands, make sure to ask your supplier that the purchased device has the ability to run java.

Step 2.

Connect your cell phone to your computer using the USB cord. Afterwards, you will have a removable drive pop up in your "My Computer", similar to if you had inserted USB stick or DAP (digital audio player). If your mobile phone happens to have external and internal memory (almost always microSD) you will notice two removable drives.

Set up a new folder somewhere in your choice of the drives with unused spare memory, and call it "java" (a good way to have things clean looking so you can find your programs later, but it truly won't matter what you call the file).

Step 3.

Search the internet for some java applications you think might be nice. I advice this site.

http://getjar.com/

They have a nice selection of apps, and you will be able to shorten your search by manufacturer or platform for quick searching. I prefer Java Generic, simply since it can often function on many different cells.

After you find the java app you like, download it, but make sure what you download is a .jar extension

Step 4.

When you are done downloading the program, you will see a zipped file. You have no need to unzip. Just click and drag zipped app from your PC to your connected phone (can you remember the advice from step 2? Quite useful now to have made a folder already indicated as java, isn't it?)

Step 5.

Disconnect your cell phone from the computer, go to the phones file manager and look around for your Java folder. Open the folder, and you should see your java app. Click it, and select install. Afterwards, the phone should install without problems and inform you when and if the program installed had no problems.

Step 6.

Navigate to the program on your phone that lets you run Java apps, browse to your uploaded application, and after that, you will be able to use the app.

That's really it. Notice however, that not each application will function on every phone, or that they won't work as expected. I recommend no pay programs, or if a paid one, finding a reduced trial version if at all possible. If there are errors, then you luckily won't have lost anything. Also take care that java apps give much more than just play funny games. Some of the best ones can give everything from faster and better media players, to office tools.