(San Mateo Calif., USA), 2008 – DeviceAnywhere™ unveiled the new public Palm® Virtual Developer Lab (VDL) – a remote testing service designed to dramatically reduce the time and resources required to develop, test, monitor, and deploy applications and content for Palm smartphone. The on-line service is available globally to all developers who register for DeviceAnywhere’s Palm package and provides support for in-market devices released by the Palm, including the Treo® 755p and the new Palm Centro™.

Through DeviceAnywhere, developers can collaborate and work in partnership with each other at any time and from anywhere. The result is a better connected community of developers, yielding better quality products and faster time to market.

DeviceAnywhere is a revolutionary online service that provides access to more than 1000 real handsets, on live worldwide mobile networks, remotely over the Internet, meeting all development, porting, testing, and monitoring needs. Unlike emulator/simulator-based solutions, DeviceAnywhere employs real, physical handsets – so anything that a user can do with a device in his/her hand, he/she can do with the handsets in DeviceAnywhere – in real-time. 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.

Cost-effective and efficient, DeviceAnywhere eliminates the inefficiencies of manual testing and the high costs of acquiring handsets and service plans, as well as enables developers to bring content to market faster than ever before. Beyond remote access, developers can also perform automated testing through DeviceAnywhere Pro™ (http://www.deviceanywhere.com/da_pro/index.htm), and perform 24×7 Quality of Service (QoS) monitoring through DeviceAnywhere Monitoring™ (http://www.deviceanywhere.com/da_monitoring/index.htm), to ensure ongoing quality and availability of their products.

“Through the DeviceAnywhere service, developers get the benefits of testing their application on multiple devices through the convenience of their desktop development environment”, said Mark Bercow, Palm SVP, business development. “The service also allows Palm to make devices available to thousands of developers who request devices for their development purposes.”