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How to become a Phone Sniper?

widianuser | 02 November, 2006 23:15

I assume anybody who has released an application for mobile devices will agree – testing every aspect of the application is a nightmare. Testing as such is a difficult and time-consuming task, but testing mobile devices adds extra difficulty: the variety of devices and different firmware versions. Where to get all the devices? How to get the devices flashed with different firmware versions? How to even know which firmware versions exist!

Funambol, the company hosting the famous open-source synchronization engine, has solved the testing problem by activating the whole developer community to test the application in their Phone Sniper program – and to get paid for it. From their website you can check the list of terminals that so far haven't been certified with their latest released software. If you find your phone from the list of uncertified devices, register yourself to Funambol, run the tests, submit results to them and receive the reward. More information can be found from Funambol's website.

I think the test result submission page is still missing two important details: