Symbian offers free university support to train future mobile software developers

Symbian have announced Symbian Academy, a program to provide free support to universities teaching knowledge and skills associated with developing software for Symbian OS. Symbian Academy is designed to make it easy for universities to create courses that teach Symbian software development and to integrate a Symbian component into existing computer science courses. University lecturers affiliated with Symbian Academy will receive free course materials, training, technical support, development literature, expert Symbian lecturers and exposure to Symbian’s industry partners.
( http://www.symbian.com/news/pr/2006/pr20068005.html)

J2ME Polish

J2ME Polish is suite of tools for creating "polished" J2ME applications. Each tool meets a definite need of J2ME developers: Build-tools with an integrated device-database, a powerful GUI, a framework for building localized applications, a game-engine, a logging framework and a collection of utilities.

It's free, open source has online documentation and tutorial. Also has a book published on the toolkit.

Sony Ericsson Developer World

For developers, by developers

Sony Ericsson Developer World is a global support program and web portal totally dedicated to helping serious, wireless developers achieve business success by providing the documentation, tools, training, technical and go-to-market support you need in your development process.

Sony Ericsson Developer World helps professional developers get on the fast track from mind to market.

This ensures that a constant stream of fun, useful and innovative content and applications is continually available for Sony Ericsson mobile phones.

Tools of your trade
To help you develop applications and content for Sony Ericsson mobile phones, Community membership of the Sony Ericsson Developer World program offers free access to:

• Documentation: white papers, special interest papers and developers' guidelines for Sony Ericsson phones and development resources
• Tools: SDKs and development tools
• Technical developer support: tips, tricks and code samples, knowledge base of support queries and solutions and active peer-to-peer moderated discussion forums. Access to dedicated technical support from our support engineers is available fro purchase as Technical Support Incidents in the on-line DevShop>>
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• Go-to-market opportunities: ranging from making content available for download via the Sony Ericsson Application Shop through to preloaded content from selected partners. More information>>

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