Phone Software Fragmentation: New market for Phones test houses
Thomas Menguy | December 5, 2006Mobile Crunch is pointing Mobile complete in this article Mobile Complete: Virtual Handsets for Real World Developers. A MobileCrunch Exclusive
But others exist, like : Paca Mobile Center (with Mobile Distillery as one of its founder, check them out, the product seems great).
So this kind of business really put a definitive end to the java “right one, runs everywhere” (if it ever had a begining ), and things are even worse in the Mobile space…I’m not sure fragmentation is a bad thing after all cause it gives a lot of freedom to hardware/UI/software design … but less power to little software companies, application provider etc….but we are not in a PC world, and perhaps applications are not so releavant here…but the data (and its presentation) is!
Update: GigaOM covers it also, and add an interesting bit of info: funding comes from Motorola Ventures…
Mobile Complete,1 a 3-year old San Mateo-based startup that provides mobile application testing services, says it has raised2 a Series B investment led by Motorola Ventures. While the round size is officially undisclosed, it is rumored to be around $10 million. Previous investor Innovacom VC also participated in the round. The company says it’s using the new funds to expand its service internationally and add more mobile handsets to its testing of roster of 300+ list of handsets. Check out the company’s virtual device-testing service called Deviceanywhere.com.
Mobile Complete and Mobile Distillery haves different approach and solve
Thomas Landspurg | December 6, 2006Mobile Complete and Mobile Distillery haves different approach and solve different problems, and are probably complementary.
Mobile Complete does not solve the fragmentation issue, but help on the testing side. It’s a very very very smart approach, the best I’ve seen so far, and they have great tools associated. The bad thing: very expensive (but might have changed since last time I’ve checked it)
Ok, It seems I've missed something here :-) Thanks Thomas. The
tmenguy | December 6, 2006Ok, It seems I’ve missed something here Thanks Thomas.
The PACA Mobile Center seems very close to Mobile Complete no? For sure it doesn’t reduce the existing fragmentation … but help living with it !