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In this month's Jack's Hack, we talk about the GA release of Phone Simulator Version 7. It provides you with a way to test your applications on the feature set available on handsets using Openwave's V7 Phone Suite, as well
as devices shipping with the Openwave Mobile Browser v6.2.3 or higher. To
help you get started, here's an overview of the feature set of the Phone
Simulator V7 The Phone Simulator is more than a browser emulator, it includes not only a WAP2 browser, an integrated messaging client and file manager as well. These tools allow deveopers to develop, test and validate browsing and messaging applications in an end to end environment to speed time to market and ensure greater application usability and reliablity when depolyed for end user consumption on real phones.. Phone Simulator V7 is a PC-based simulator of Phone Suite Version 7 built from the same code line that gets ported into shipping phones. It's easy to install and set up and faithfully recreates the same features provided on the device in a Windows 2000/XP environment. . Phone Simulator V7 Preview has a "dual stack" configuration, meaning that the single executable contains both the WAP and HTTP versions of the browser and also contains a "direct connection" mode that allows browsing and testing of content without the requirement of any proxy or gateway. The simulator has the following capabilities:
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