DeviceAnywhere today unveiled the new public Palm Virtual Developer Lab (VDL) – a remote testing service designed to dramatically reduce the time and resources required to develop, test, monitor, and deploy applications and content for Palm smartphones. The on-line service is available globally to all developers who register for DeviceAnywhere’s Palm package and provides support for in-market devices released by Palm, including the Treo 755p and the Palm Centro smartphone.

DeviceAnywhere provides access to more than 1000 real handsets, on live worldwide mobile networks, remotely over the Internet, meeting all development, porting, testing, and monitoring needs. DeviceAnywhere employs real, physical handsets – so anything that a user can do with a device in his/her hand, he/she can do with the handsets in DeviceAnywhere – in real-time. This includes tasks such as pressing device buttons, tapping on touch screens, connecting/disconnecting the battery, viewing the LCD, listening to ringers and speakers, and opening/closing a handset.

To access the Palm Virtual Developer Lab, users simply register by selecting the Palm VDL option on DeviceAnywhere’s Web site (www.deviceanywhere.com). Once registered, users are able to access Palm smartphones within the Virtual Developer Lab, press buttons, view LCD displays, and listen to ringers and speakers. Additional DeviceAnywhere features – such as monitoring and test automation – are also available on all Palm Virtual Developer Lab smartphones, empowering users to more efficiently create better applications and content for the marketplace.