Webaroo Releases Product for Mobile Devices

Webaroo, which launched the first version of windows laptop and pocket PC product nearly a year ago has comeup with product for J2ME phones. Webaroo for mobile devices lets you access web content on the go. All you need is a phone that supports Java MIDP 2.0 applications and has a GPRS connection (wireless data plan). GPRS should be enabled on your phone to download and update content. Once you connect to the Internet through Webaroo on your phone, you can download content which is optimized for viewing on your mobile device. Apart from large number of webpacks on different categories like Sports, Technology, Entertainment.., they have services like Gmail, orkut, Weather,Wordnet,Blogger and feedreader. They currently support all phones that provide support for Java MIDP 2.0 applications. Webaroo is free but you will require a wireless data plan (GPRS connection), to download and use Webaroo. This application looks cool and seems to be majorly targeted for indian market with packs on bollywood stars like Amitabh Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai etc. Internet on the mobile phones seems to be fast catching up with many companies joining the bandwagon. Widsets, Yahoo Go, Blue Pulse and Plusmo are other similar applications.

The website url is http://mobile.webaroo.com. The application can be downloaded from http://www.webaroo.com/m

[Software Review] DeviceAnywhere : Testing Mobile Apps Across All Devices

During the early and intermediate stages of mobile application development, developers will be using the emulators. While emulators are cool tools during early stages, QA cant certify the products by testing on emulators, they need to test on real handsets. With mobile market so diversified, QA needs to test the product across various handsets,carriers and combinations of both. Buying all these devices for one time testing may not be good idea. DeviceAnywhere provides the solution for this problem. DeviceAnywhere is a revolutionary online service that provides access to hundreds of real handsets, on live worldwide networks, remotely over the Internet - for all your dev/porting/testing needs. In short, they provide an online interface for testin different live phones across multiple networks. I am impressed with their idea and business model and it would be useful for many small and medium companies to use this kind of services. Personally, I feel the pricing is still slightly high and lowering it may help them get more customers. They already have more than 650 clients.

Disclaimer: These are my personal views about deviceanywhere and am not advertising about their service.