Test and certify your product

T-Mobile has partnered with qualified providers to help streamline your testing and certification process.

For testing we have two avenues to choose from, a Virtual Developer Lab powered by DeviceAnywhere^® and a device loaner program. The Virtual Developer Lab (VDL) allows developers access to real mobile devices, on T-Mobile USA’s network remotely over the Internet.

The device loaner program is for developers who have completed the devPartner Participation Agreement and enables you to have access to a variety of physical devices and only pay two-way shipping & handling for each device. Specifics of the program can be found here.

DeviceAnywhere replicates the user experience from pressing device buttons, tapping on touch screens and viewing the LCD among other testing scenarios that will meet your needs. One advantage is there will be access to some pre-market handsets helping you get an early start to bringing your application to the latest handsets coming to market.

Certification requirements and best practices

The last step in getting your application on deck is meeting the certification requirements. You can find the requirements and best practices, as well as additional recommendations to optimize your earning potential in the devPartner Mobile Application Handbook or devPartner Mobile Web Handbook.

For certification, we have partnered with True North Service for mobile applications and InfoStretch Corporation for mobile web sites.

Mobile Applications

True North Service, Inc. provides T-Mobile devPartners comprehensive user experience testing, application quality assurance, content certification and monitoring services for mobile games, mobile applications and mobile media.

If you’re ready to submit your mobile application, just go here.

Mobile Web Sites

InfoStretch Corporation provides end-to-end mobile testing and certification services covering mobile web sites for T-Mobile devPartners. The InfoStretch team has extensive experience working with mobile technologies deployed in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. InfoStretch has a wide-ranging background in testing over 2000 mobile web sites since 2004 and has access to an extensive handset lab. The InfoStretch team is able to evaluate certification related issues, usability aspects, potential defects, scalability concerns and suggested resolutions.

If you’re ready to submit your mobile web site, just go here.

Mobile applications and mobile web sites that do not qualify for this program may not be submitted through the devPartner Community web site. Those applications and mobile web sites are outlined in the Application Stewardship Principles Schedule and Mobile Web Site Stewardship Principles Schedule. If your mobile application or mobile web site does not qualify for this program, please contact our Business Development Group.