12.30.2009
Mobile emulators on PC testing websites on cell phones
Do you think? How I can test my site on a mobile or cellular phone? As mobile phones are becoming more and more dominant in our lives most of the time we end up using a mobilephone for everything possible. We use mobile phone to communicate by calling, sending SMS and everyone's favourite "Missed Calls" (it surely is a way to save money but will put you on the avoid list of a lot of people).
This kind of usage of mobile phone has accelerated the development in mobile technologies. Most of the businesses on the internet have mobile versions of their sites. However as smart phones get smarter, the site which runs on your PC browser can also be viewed on your phone, however to achieve the best performance customised mobile application is required.
In case you are developing a wap (Wireless Application Protocol) site following is the list of sites and softwares which will help you test your application on the computer instead of a mobilephone. These softwares act as mobile platform which helps you see the mobile version right away.
Emulator | dotMobi (mtld.mobi/emulator.php) (Free Web based emulator)
MTLD is the official registrar of .mobi sites and it also offers the emulator.
WapTiger (http://www.waptiger.com/waptiger/) (Free Web based emulator)
M3Gate 0.6 (http://www.m3gate.com/m3gate/download/m3stp06.exe) (Free Software)
AU-System Demo WAP Browser for Palm OS 1.61 (http://www.wapguide.com/wapguide/browser.html) (Free Software)
Deck-it WAP Browser (http://www.pyweb.com/deck-it) (Free Software)
Yospace SmartPhone Emulator Developer Edition (http://www.yospace.com/cgi-bin/login.pl) (Shareware)
This kind of usage of mobile phone has accelerated the development in mobile technologies. Most of the businesses on the internet have mobile versions of their sites. However as smart phones get smarter, the site which runs on your PC browser can also be viewed on your phone, however to achieve the best performance customised mobile application is required.
In case you are developing a wap (Wireless Application Protocol) site following is the list of sites and softwares which will help you test your application on the computer instead of a mobilephone. These softwares act as mobile platform which helps you see the mobile version right away.
Emulator | dotMobi (mtld.mobi/emulator.php) (Free Web based emulator)
MTLD is the official registrar of .mobi sites and it also offers the emulator.
WapTiger (http://www.waptiger.com/waptiger/) (Free Web based emulator)
M3Gate 0.6 (http://www.m3gate.com/m3gate/download/m3stp06.exe) (Free Software)
AU-System Demo WAP Browser for Palm OS 1.61 (http://www.wapguide.com/wapguide/browser.html) (Free Software)
Deck-it WAP Browser (http://www.pyweb.com/deck-it) (Free Software)
Yospace SmartPhone Emulator Developer Edition (http://www.yospace.com/cgi-bin/login.pl) (Shareware)
- Emulator | dotMobi (mtld.mobi/emulator.php) (Free Web based emulator)
- MTLD is the official registrar of .mobi sites and it also offers the emulator.
- WapTiger (http://www.waptiger.com/waptiger/) (Free Web based emulator)
- M3Gate 0.6 (http://www.m3gate.com/m3gate/download/m3stp06.exe) (Free Software)
- AU-System Demo WAP Browser for Palm OS 1.61 (http://www.wapguide.com/wapguide/browser.html) (Free Software)
- Deck-it WAP Browser (http://www.pyweb.com/deck-it) (Free Software)
- Yospace SmartPhone Emulator Developer Edition (http://www.yospace.com/cgi-bin/login.pl) (Shareware)
These softwares can be categorised under follwoing categories: Wap Browsers, Wap Emulators,Mobile Browser, Windows Mobile Emulator, Wap Simulator. Do leave comments if your favouritemobile emulator is missing from the list