Thursday, August 10, 2006

DeviceAnywhere - Any device, Any network, Any global location

Have been using this site for testing out our applications. Pretty Neat ! Did find out that the application was misbehaving on a lot of phones. The system is pretty cool, you are connected to a real device and I would like to see more emulators built in similar fashion down the road. Won't that be cool.

The site is not perfect, the Launch conductor can hang at times but i suspect thats more to do with my PC than the actual app itself. You also need to have a really good connection speed.

Positives:
1) As a developer I do not need to buy all the phones atleast not the crappy ones.
2) Gives the QA the ability to record frames so that there are no more "Cannot reproduce" statements in the test report.

Negatives:
1) I do not think their implementation is perfect for all devices. I have had some issues with screen refreshing that I do not think I am responsibloe for specially since they do not occur on the live device.
2) Would like to see more devices added to their list [OK ... this is not a negative]

They have a special promotion to try out the Beta product for 199.99 per month. I do not know how different this is from the actual product for 399.99 per month. I have been using the Beta product.

Hopefully, sites like Device Anywhere will drop their prices in the near future once they have made up their initial investement so that more developers can get access to devices.

DeviceAnywhere - Any device, Any network, Any global location

Sunday, August 06, 2006

BlackBerry 8100 cameraphone! Stealth revealed! - Engadget

Just saw this at Engadget. Looks awesome. Cant make out if it has a Scroll wheel though.

BlackBerry 8100 cameraphone! Stealth revealed! - Engadget

Revisiting ScanR

Its been a while since I checked out the ScanR application. They have made some nice changes. They now have a seperate address for sending documents and whiteboards. I guess its just some time before they enter into the product matching space. Love the google gadget they have come up with. Added it to my home page instantly. I guess technically speaking it should be simple to implement a google gadget. I am now adding it to my TODO list ;-).

My Earlier Post on ScanR
ScanR Blog

Friday, August 04, 2006

[WAP] SCANBUY Shoppers WAP site is now online

The beta version of SCANBUY Shopper is now finally up and running. The WAP site is now available at http://search.scanbuy.com