Why virtualize your mobile phone?

Mobile device virtualization is different from server or desktop virtualization, where the hardware components are nearly standardized [eg keyboard, mouse, USB, LAN, etc.], so the hardware can be easily abstracted from any OS.

While there is a variety of hardware on a mobile phone (e.g. iphone touchscreen, stylus ... other add-ons) and there is very little interoperability between all types of phones or there is very little set of features common to all mobile equipment. You cannot use the iphone gesture on a Nokia phone that does not have a touch surface.

What is disk virtualization for mobile?

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Not everyone can afford to provide their testers / developers with full-blown mobile phones. This is where virtualization comes into play, as almost everyone today has a computer capable of running some kind of virtual machine.



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There are also two drives:

  • This is useful for cases like S60 and Windows mobile where there is no difference between hardware (or perhaps virtualization of your Android mobile, so you can use WM until android gets shaky and has huge root exploits :))
  • Because they can


I'm interested in this from the developer side as I have to constantly develop for symbian and it can reduce the number of phone options I have for a developer test :)

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