Mobile Development- Obtaining development hardware - best practices?

Posted by Zoot on Programmers See other posts from Programmers or by Zoot
Published on 2011-03-08T17:28:38Z Indexed on 2011/03/09 0:18 UTC
Read the original article Hit count: 1004

Filed under:

software-development

|

mobile

|

Hardware

|

mobile-app

I'm looking to get into smartphone development, but there a quite a few options out there for platforms right now. (iOS/Android/WebOS/Bada/Symbian/MeeGo/WindowsMobile/JavaME)

I'd like to have development hardware to test my code and the overall functionality of the devices.

What is the best way to obtain and/or borrow hardware for development and testing? Are there rules of thumb to follow which apply to all companies and platforms?

In this situation, I'm a single developer. Does this process change for a startup? A hackerspace? A small business? A large business?

Thanks.

© Programmers or respective owner

Related posts about software-development

C# development with Mono and MonoDevelop

as seen on Developer IT - Search for 'Developer IT'
In the past two years, I have been developing .NET from my MacBook by running Windows XP into VM Ware and more recently into Virtual Box from OS X. This way, I could install Visual Studio and be able to work seamlessly. But, this way of working has a major down side: it kills the battery of my laptop…… >>> More
Remove accents from String .NET

as seen on Developer IT - Search for 'Developer IT'
Private Const ACCENT As String = “ÀÁÂÃÄÅàáâãäåÒÓÔÕÖØòóôõöøÈÉÊËèéêëÌÍÎÏìíîïÙÚÛÜùúûüÿÑñÇç” Private Const SANSACCENT As String = “AAAAAAaaaaaaOOOOOOooooooEEEEeeeeIIIIiiiiUUUUuuuuyNnCc” Public Shared Function FormatForUrl(ByVal uriBase As String) As String If String.IsNullOrEmpty(uriBase)… >>> More
How to obtain a random sub-datatable from another data table

as seen on Developer IT - Search for 'Developer IT'
Introduction In this article, I’ll show how to get a random subset of data from a DataTable. This is useful when you already have queries that are filtered correctly but returns all the rows. Analysis I came across this situation when I wanted to display a random tag cloud. I already had the… >>> More
Surface development: it’s just like software development

as seen on Geeks with Blogs - Search for 'Geeks with Blogs'
Surface is magic. Everyone using it seems to think that way. And I have to be honest, after working for almost 2 years with the platform I still get that special feeling the moment I turn on the unit to do some more work. The whole user experience, the rich environment of the SDK, the touch, even… >>> More
Software Development in an Offshore Destination

as seen on Article City - Search for 'Article City'
India is a country of color, of unity in diversity and of culture. It?s a land of the saints and seers. It?s a land where languages change every six miles. At the behest of a technically demanding wo... [Author: David Jackson - Computers and Internet - August 31, 2009] >>> More

Related posts about mobile

Cloud MBaaS : The Next Big Thing in Enterprise Mobility

as seen on ASP.net Weblogs - Search for 'ASP.net Weblogs'
In this blog post, I will take a look at Cloud Mobile Backend as a Service (MBaaS) and how we can leverage Cloud based Mobile Backend as a Service for building enterprise mobile apps. Today, mobile apps are incredibly significant in both consumer and enterprise space and the demand for the mobile… >>> More
The broken Promise of the Mobile Web

as seen on West-Wind - Search for 'West-Wind'
High end mobile devices have been with us now for almost 7 years and they have utterly transformed the way we access information. Mobile phones and smartphones that have access to the Internet and host smart applications are in the hands of a large percentage of the population of the world. In many… >>> More
Mobile enabled web apps with ASP.NET MVC 3 and jQuery Mobile

as seen on ASP.net Weblogs - Search for 'ASP.net Weblogs'
In my previous blog posts, I have demonstrated a simple web app using ASP.NET MVC 3 and EF Code First. In this post, I will be focus on making this application for mobile devices. A single web site will be used for both mobile browsers and desktop browsers. If users are accessing the web app from… >>> More
How to import Opera Mobile 9 bookmarks into Opera 10 Mobile Beta 3

as seen on Super User - Search for 'Super User'
On my Samsung Saga, I've been using the Opera 9 as my default browser. I just installed Opera 10 Beta 3 and I want to import the Opera 9 bookmarks into Opera 10. How do I do that? >>> More
Oracle Retail Point-of-Service with Mobile Point-of-Service, Release 13.4.1

as seen on Oracle Blogs - Search for 'Oracle Blogs'
Oracle Retail Mobile Point-of-Service was previously released as a standalone product. Oracle Retail Mobile Point-of-Service is now a supported extension of Oracle Retail Point-of-Service, Release 13.4.1. Oracle Retail Mobile Point-of-Service provides support for using a mobile device to perform tasks… >>> More