samuel337 | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 13 2007 | mobiles, development
"In one of the more impressive Frankenphone installations we've ever seen, a company called Mobile Complete has been operating a remote phone-testing service called DeviceAnywhere that allows mobile phone developers to test out their apps on any of their choice of over 500 different phone models. The phones are opened up and have their circuits wired directly into a server, so devs have access to every part of the device, just as if they were physically present. "
Man, that's a pretty awesome setup/service, although I wouldn't want to be the mobile dev trying to target so many devices... such is the state of mobile app development :(
samuel337 | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 20 2007 | google, open source, development, mobiles
"Today Google released the Android platform SDK for Open Handset Alliance devices. Android contains a custom Dalvik virtual machine for running applications written in a subset of Java... Instead of providing a full version of the Java SE or Java ME Google has diverged on two fronts. First, a limited subset of the core Java packages is provided."
Nice overview of Android from a developer's perspective, but wtf Google! Let's fragment the mobile world further by introducing another incompatible app platform!

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