Hey developers: check out this virtual workbench to try out your application on various phones

If you develop software for mobile phones you already know the big pain point. No, not the carrier; the fact that you can’t possibly test your application on all the handsets in a given carrier’s deck let alone across any swath of the market. Even if you invested your life savings in mobile phones (like I seem to be doing) you’d still likely come up short in the device department.

Mobile Complete, the San Mateo California startup, has a solution to this problem that has to be seen to be believed, but used only once to make you a believer. Not another emulator, Mobile Complete has developed a hardware and software solution that allows developers to gain remote access to actual devices and then have the way the device is responding to your program or commands delivered to your desktop as a virtual version of the phone you are controlling remotely.

Source: Mobile Crunch
Via: Tommi’s S60 Applications Blog

Very wicked solution for mobile developers, I’m for anything that speeds up time to market. I also like it when developers hold public betas and ask for user input. That to me is the most important step, because making sure your application works on every mobile phone out there, doesn’t mean your application is going to rock.