The years i used the J2ME variant it served me just fine. But then i stayed away from the likes of gmail for the lonest time (and the featurephone i used had a

The years i used the J2ME variant it served me just fine. But then i stayed away from the likes of gmail for the lonest time (and the featurephone i used had a perfectly usable email client built in). As for "IM", phones already have that. Its called SMS.