Karma Octopus Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 At work we are currently looking into what test devices we should acquire to be a strong player in the HTML5 market. So what I'm wondering is what tablets and smartphones we should focus on getting first, we can always get more units later but right now we want to focus on the "must have" ones. I would love your feedback on this topic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alex_h Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 The approach I've gone for is to cover most screen resolutions in the ios market and then also get hold of one or more samsung phones. So something like the following:* an iPhone / iPod with a 4 inch screen (1136 x 640* an iPhone / iPod with an iPhone 4 type screen (960 x 640)* an iPad / iPad mini* a samsung S3 / S4you could also consider getting an Android tablet of some description, maybe a Nexus.Ideally you also need to consider which OS and browser versions you want to support, and ensure that you have access to devices running each of those as well. So for example make sure that some of your ios devices are running iOS 6 and some running iOS 7, likewise different Android versions on each device, and numerous versions of chrome and firefox on each. Inevitably you will soon come up against reported bugs on some combination you don't have, but at least you can cover most of the key players with something like the above (IMO). Karma Octopus 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1-800-STAR-WARS Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 Agree with the above, also the Google Nexus devices are pretty solid for testing and don't come with all the bloat that Samsung phones do. Might also be worth getting a windows mobile device (lumia?) but the market share is pretty tiny. Mobile IE can cause little bugs so it's worth testing if you intend to support it. It's also worth going to a second hand electronics store and buying a load of old cheap phones. Gotta remember that a lot of people in the 'real world' outside tech are stuck on crappy old phones and don't particularly care about upgrading. If you can get your game working on say, a Galaxy S2 on Android 2.x, you'll know it'll work for a lot of older devices. Older devices are also a lot less forgiving not only performance-wise but in terms of their javascript runtimes, so you can sometimes spot buggy code quicker. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alex_h Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 going to a second hand electronics store and buying a load of old cheap phones. Gumtree and ebay are also good options for this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karma Octopus Posted February 5, 2014 Author Share Posted February 5, 2014 Thanks for the input. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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