DeviceAnywhere Makes Nokia Phones Available to Software Testers

DeviceAnywhere a company which enables software testers to access physical handset via an internet link says that it has launched a service with Forum Nokia. The on-line service supports the most popular Nokia devices running on the Series 40 and S60 platforms and is available globally to all members of the Forum Nokia developer community.

DeviceAnywhere employs real, physical handsets - therefore, anything that a user can do with a device in his/her hand, he/she can do with the handsets in DeviceAnywhere - in real-time. This includes tasks such as pressing device buttons, tapping on touch screens, connecting/disconnecting the battery, viewing the LCD, listening to ringers and speakers, and opening/closing a handset.

"Increasing availability of high-bandwidth networks and improvements in mobile device functionalities are fueling consumer expectations for increasingly sophisticated applications and services," said Shiv Bakhshi, Ph.D., director of Mobile Device Technology & Trends program at IDC. "But creation of innovative mobile apps and services requires that developers have easy, and fast, access to mobile devices so that they can test and optimize their offerings. Unfortunately, given the ever burgeoning portfolio of mobile devices from handset vendors, this can be very expensive both in terms of time and money. The situation seems to beg for a solution that allows developers, distributed in time and space, prompt and continued access to new devices without imposing any serious financial burden."

Through the Forum Nokia Virtual Developer Lab, developers currently have access to more than 40 of NokiaĆ's most popular devices available both in Europe and the United States - with new devices continuously added.

Posted to the site on 8th July 2008