Nemo enables development and distribution of interactive graphical mobile applications for use on Java devices from companies such as Nokia, Samsung, LG, and Motorola. Everypoint hosts applications built on its platform.

Keys to the product are high-performance vector graphics and "push-sync" capabilities, Everypoint said. Nemo is available in a preview beta release, with general release anticipated for early-2009.

Companies are bringing the iPhone to Java in part because .

"The visual look and feel has parity with the iPhone," said Allan MacKinnon, president, founder and CTO at Everypoint. Nemo applications do not add touch capabilities similar to iPhone but can leverage touch capabilities if these already exists on a particular phone.

An embedded graphics vector graphics engine provides a rich look and feel to applications, the company said. "It's a vector graphics engine so that we can draw applications, we can display applications that look very polished, and that was a feature that was never before available on mass-market devices," MacKinnon said.