Good simulation software for mobile devices

Question

Can anyone recommend good simulation software for mobile devices? I am most interested in Nokia smart phones.

Answer 1

Are you looking for Emulator for Nokia phones? You can find those here..

Otherwise explain clearly what kind of simulation software you are looking for!

Answer 2

OK, I am showing my newb-ness with mobile development. I am talking about emulation rather than simulation.

I am contemplating porting an application to a phone platform and like the look (and ubiquity in my market) of Nokia smart phone, which I think run Symbian. What I would like to do is experiment by creating a development environment locally but I am a little lost and need some pointers to get started.

Answer 3

The Nokia S60 SDKs have an emulator which will run on the pc.

http://www.forum.nokia.com/main/resources/tools_and_sdks/

Symbian phones can be programmed in a variety of languages, not just Symbian C++. There's OpenC, Ruby, Py60 (Python), web programming and of course the various flavours of Java.

Answer 4

You are right! The Nokia phones runs on Symbian Platform.

There are quite some variants out there, But S60 is better. UIQ is not doing that well lately.

Have a read at Developing with S60

You can download the SDK from forum.nokia.com. So the Emulator comes with the Developer Kit. You can try to build and run the samples on Emulator to get first hand feeling.

Unfortunately Developing for Symbian is not walk-in-the-park. You can get some developer feelings here:

• Symbian OS

Alternatively you can look for Windows Mobile. Which has pretty easy learning curve if you have prior knowledge in any of the areas [Win32, or MFC or .NET C#]

Getting Started with Windows Mobile

or If you are comfortable with Java, check out J2ME. It has a wireless toolkit with decent emulator.

Answer 5

A relevant shameless plug.

A recent book from Symbian Press is targeted at developers new to mobile development.

It guides you step by step through a 2 weeks learning curve and can greatly help porting efforts.

http://developer.symbian.com/quick

Answer 6

Just to be clear, not all Nokia phones run Symbian. Only the Series 60 smart phones devices run Symbian, the lower end Series 40 devices run a proprietary OS. Your best bet is to use WURFL to determine what the capabilities of each device are.

The nice thing about the Nokia S60 emulators is how well they are integrated with Eclipse and Netbeans. I am personally using Eclispe and the S60 emulator to develop a J2ME application and it was all quite straight forward to set up.