Testing on emulators

So you are previewing your channel on a high-end Palm device. It looks nice, but how does it look on a Palm III? Or a Palm IIIx? Or a Palm VII? Or a Palm IIIe? Or a Windows Mobile Pocket PC, Windows Mobile 5 or 6, Win32, or a Microsoft Smartphone?

Palm Computing has an excellent emulator available to the public from:

[external link] http://www.palmos.com/dev/tools/emulator/

The emulator is available for free, although to run it, you need ROM images of the various mobile devices. These are also available for free, but for legal reasons, you need to sign a license agreement to gain access to them.

Palm Emulator screen

Microsoft also has an emulator for Windows Mobile 5 and Microsoft Smartphone devices, available to the public from:

[external link] http://www.microsoft.com/

From the Microsoft home page, search for "standalone device emulator" to locate the download pages. (It's basically one emulator, with a separate image you must also download for Windows Mobile 5 and Microsoft Smartphone.)


Installing M-Business Client on the Palm emulator
Configuring M-Business Client in an emulator
Synchronizing your M-Business Anywhere account in an emulator