[pjmlp]

> With Android you have a chance to receive a fix over the network - that's magic in comparison.

Assuming you shelled out money for a Nexus that wasn't canned like the TI one.

All the other OEMs aren't any different from the J2ME days.

All my Android devices got the same amount of updates as the J2ME we used to target, meaning either none or one.

Updated via the desktop software that came with them.

> You're not downloading Samsung SDK

You mean this SDK?

http://developer.samsung.com/sdk-and-tools

Or this one?

https://developer.sony.com/develop/

Or this one?

http://developer.lge.com/resource/mobile/RetrieveOverview.de...

I don't see any difference.

[viraptor]

All of those provide extra functionality. Extra, as in beyond what you would normally need for an app. There are sensors, themes, accessories, etc. They're not available in (for example) non-Samsung devices, so they don't really apply there.

In J2ME you pretty much needed to use custom SDK to play a sound. Or draw a screen fast enough to do scrolling. Or just activate colours at all. I'm talking about things like http://www.j2megame.org/j2meapi/Nokia_UI_API_1_1/ which provided sound and ui canvas.