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MANHASSET, N.Y. - Nextel Communications Inc. is set to release two Java-ready wireless handsets for its end-to-end packet data network. One of the phones also incorporates subscriber identity module (SIM) card technology, apparently the first non-GSM phone to do so.
The i85s and i50sx are made by Motorola and support the Wireless Applications Protocol. They are equipped with Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Java 2 Micro Engine (J2ME), which offers a platform programming language that can be embedded in portable applications such as...