dotMobi offers free testing time on DeviceAnywhere

Rating: just use an iPhone

By Annie Turner

dotMobi – the consortium behind the Internet address created for mobile – is offering Mobile Complete’s DeviceAnywhere remote handset testing service to the thousands of members of the dotMobi Developer Forum.

DeviceAnywhere service provides users with connection to, and
interaction with, live mobile handsets over the Internet. Developers
log in, choose from the hundreds of available devices and the global
networks currently supported in DeviceAnywhere, and start testing.

There is a catch. Mobile Complete has done a deal with dotMobi to offer just five hours of free testing to any registered user of dev.mobi. Surely this is just a rouse to get developers hooked on DeviceAnywhere in the hope they’ll start paying when the five hours run out?

We still have reservations about the whole dotMobi approach – after all, mobile is just another means of accessing the web and technologies already exist that enable a mobile device to look at an ordinary web page. The whole approach has just had a terrific kick up the britches by the iPhone, which is all to the good. It seems likely that by the time the dotMobi movement has built up enough momentum to become a mass market phenomenon, the world will have moved on.

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