August 04, 2005

Mobile Device Database

Posted at August 4, 2005 10:23 AM in Devices & Carriers .


Mobile Research has launched a mobile device database product that contains data on handsets from Cingular, Nextel, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon in the US. Coming soon they will have a handful of UK carriers, as well.

Covered are many currently shipping handsets on these carriers. The data includes upwards of 500 pieces of information on each device that helps developers manage the difficulties of device differences. Besides standard handset information, like screen sizes, the information also includes data on supported APIs, browser tag support, among other things.

The information is a bit expensive with an annual subscription price of USD $28,500, but could be priceless to many software and media companies in time and money savings.

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Wow, that's pricey. Luckily, much of this information is available on the developer programs, often for quite a bit cheaper. Although this information is often in individual PDF style documents, whereas the format of the data provided (db or excel or something) can make all the difference. Although this feels a bit late in the game. Yah, there are a lot of phones out there now, but how many companies have already tried to solve this problem for themselves, and done a better job of it?

I guess we'll never know, with a Lexus-sized bill just to take a peak...

Posted by Sorsha at March 14, 2006 09:31 PM

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