DeviceAnywhere Partners with Vivo, Latin America’s Largest Mobile Phone Service Provider
New Vivo Mobile Virtual Developer Lab to simplify testing and monitoring of content and services for global developer community
SAN MATEO, Calif., USA (February 16, 2010) -- DeviceAnywhere together with Certified® (www.certified.com.br) , the leading provider of testing and certification for mobile applications in Latin America and Vivo, the largest mobile phone service provider in Latin America with over 50 million customers, DeviceAnywhere™ today announces the launch of the Vivo Virtual Developer Lab (VDL), providing remote access to over thirty physical mobile devices from anywhere in the world.
Available to all members of the Vivo developer community, the Vivo VDL will ensure that the recently announced Vivo downloads store is populated with content that meets the highest standards of usability and reliability.
Built on DeviceAnywhere’s award-winning Direct-to-Device™ technology, developers will be able to remotely interact with local handsets as if they were in their hands, including the iPhone 3G, Blackberry 9000 and Nokia N95. Developers are able to press buttons, rotate the handset, listen to ringtones and sounds, play videos, access the internet and view LCD displays with pixel-by-pixel representations for accurate image and text matching that display exactly what the consumer would view.
“Vivo continues to differentiate itself from its competitors due to our continued search for excellence in the services we offer and the strong relationships this has created with our customers. The content and applications we offer to our customers through the Vivo downloads store is no exception to this and we are therefore committed to providing best in class testing and certification tools through our partnership with DeviceAnywhere to our developer community to maintain those standards,” said Alexandre Madeira Fernandes, Product and Services Director, Vivo. “We are extremely excited about the launch of the Vivo Virtual Developer Lab and the content and services it will cultivate amongst our global developer community.”
“With the growing number of smartphone users and improved access to 3G networks in Latin America, DeviceAnywhere is expanding its footprint to support this exiting new market with the launch of the Vivo Virtual Developer Lab,” said Faraz Syed, CEO of DeviceAnywhere. “We are pleased to offer Vivo subscribers access to the widest range of mobile devices possible as part of our commitment to enable the development of quality mobile content across the globe.”
Latin America represents one of the fastest growing markets for mobile, with Pyramid Research predicting smartphone sales to grow from 7 million smartphones sold in 2009, to 48 million in 2014 representing 30 percent of total sales.
Notes to Editors
With the most extensive bank of real handsets in the market, DeviceAnywhere is the only solution that:
- Employs real, physical handsets connected to live networks – NOT emulators/simulators or other technologies that may control only a subset of the devices’ functionality
- Empowers users to interact with devices exactly as if they held the devices in their hands. This includes tasks such as pressing device buttons, tapping on touch screens, connecting/disconnecting the battery, viewing the LCD, listening to ringers and speakers and opening/closing a handset
- Offers pixel-by-pixel representations of LCD displays allowing for accurate image and text matching – displaying exactly what the end-user would experience
About Vivo
Vivo, controlled by the groups Portugal Telecom and Telefonica, is the Brazilian mobile telecommunication company that offers the best quality in phone calls, according to Anatel (National Agency of Telecommunication). The qualities that differentiate Vivo from its competitors include the search for excellence in its services as well as in its relationship with customers, a large portfolio of services, especially innovative services of voice and data transmission, like access to mobile broadband Internet, video transmission and other on-line communication formats.
About Certified®
Certified® is a Brazilian IT Services company, specialized on software and small devices testing and validation. Certified´s expertise on “Integrated Certification” has leveraged its leadership within Latin America territory, on software legacy systems, payment methods and mainly for mobile application under CDMA, GSM e 3G technologies. Through its own framework, awarded methodology, laboratories and Professional Services, Certified® has providing high level of excellence and customer satisfaction for large set of service deliverables.
About DeviceAnywhere
DeviceAnywhere provides convenient and cost-effective end-to-end solutions for mobile content development, testing, monitoring, certification, test automation and deployment – enabling application developers to bring better content to market faster than ever before. DeviceAnywhere products are accessible over three core technology platforms to address specific use cases of mobile application developers.
Direct-to-Device™ technology – This approach provides access to real handsets in live global networks, from anywhere. This award winning technology has served thousands of organizations for six years and is an established and widely used standard protocol for mobile developers worldwide.
Direct-To-Device™ – Smartphone technology approach provides a software-only option exclusively for Smartphone application development and test automation and is available in a lab environment. Ideal for enterprise mobility applications and consumer applications designed exclusively for smartphones.
Direct-To-Device Express – This approach ensures the fastest device turnaround possible and is an ideal choice for those groups within mobile operators and device manufacturers that are responsible for handset testing and certification.
DeviceAnywhere currently supports more than 2000 devices on over 28 different carrier networks worldwide, with locations in the U.S., U.K., Canada, France, Germany, Spain and Latin America. To learn more about DeviceAnywhere – and to sign up for a free, three-hour trial – please visit www.deviceanywhere.com. Interested in our perspective on trends and issues in the mobile marketplace? Visit our CEO's blog (www.mobileapplicationtestingtimes.wordpress.com) and follow us on Twitter (@DevAnywhere).
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