Test Mobile Apps on Loaner Phones April 2, 2007 (Vol. 28, No. 7) Decide which data apps are most critical to your end users and test them using loaner phones on different mobile broadband networks, says Lisa Pierce, a VP at Cambridge, Mass.-based Forrester Research. Check data transfer speeds and latency, she says.
Offering loaner phones is part of the sales process at Cingular, newly renamed AT&T Mobility, says spokesman John Kampfe. Verizon Wireless offers test phones at the discretion of the sales staff or upon request, says spokeswoman Brenda Raney. The amount of time an enterprise loan a phone for varies. Small projects could get about 10 days while a larger project might need 30 days. ( |
