Urgent need for practical applets

I discovered two very similar languages a couple of days ago, Scala and Nice. The Scala community looks to be very active. On the other hand, Nice seems to be dying; I hope that Nice makes a comeback, because it is a nice language (forgive me the pun). As for Scala, it has a feature that renders it useless for my purposes (applets and applications for cellphones). The great advantage of using the Java VM is that one finds its runtime  installed in pratically every browser and  cellphone in the world. Then, it becomes easy to distribute programs. Scala however needs to carry its own runtime around, and it is huge.

I have seen a few uplets in Scala. They need a huge library to work with (scala-library.jar). I know that Scala is popular, but it is not popular enough to have its runtime everywhere. For the time being I will write my applets and cellphone applications in Nice, but if Nice fades out, I would like to have an option. What are the chances of having small and easily portable Scala applications and applets? For instance, what are the chances of writing a cellphone application in Scala? A 60K jar file is quite reasonable even for a cellphone, but not 3.6M!