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Their original client works very well and was certainly the best im client at the time.

Now all that's keeping people there is network effect. Telegram is just better at this point, and it works on almost every platform with no weird restrictions




Storing a history of all of your messages in the cloud isn't a feature for everyone.


Does Telegram have an app for J2ME?


No it doesn't but it does have a public API, libraries and is friendly to third-party developers so nothing is stopping someone from creating a J2ME based client.

You can fetch source code from https://telegram.org/apps




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