Device Anywhere

10 Apr 2008

In the heady early days of the mobile web, I would throw mobiles into either a pass or fail tray (I've heard of larger labs using buckets) depending on how they handled the current mobile site we were working on. Although mobiles browsers have got a lot better, you still get surprises and the need to test on multiple mobiles hasn't gone away.

If you're in Japan and focused on a Japanese audience, getting your hands on a plethora of mobiles for testing isn't too difficult but once you move beyond Japan's shores, testing gets a whole lot more complicated when GSM mobiles won't work here and overseas carrier performance varies considerably. Device Anywhere offers one alternative to a lot of international travel with a service that lets you test mobiles all over the world from the comfort of your browser and they've recently expanded their device list to include mobiles from Japan.

I haven't had a chance to test Device Anywhere yet, but will blog my impressions once I have.