Testing your sites for mobile - what hardware?
 

OK so in an effort to get with the times I am reviewing the mobile functionality of my sites and I wonder what hardware you guys are using for this.

I have my personal Samsung Galaxy Note phone and tablet, which I have hacked adobe flash into, so that doesn't really give me a clear idea of user experience, since most of them are not going to be installing unsupported packages.

I am thinking I should go on ebay or something and get a used gen 1 or 2 ipad for iOS testing and maybe a cheap android phone a gen or two old and leave it vanilla.

Is that gonna work? Or are there big changes with the latest gen Mac and Android stuff that I need to be up to date on?

Oh, and are there emulators that will do it from a desktop?

I tested a few and this is the one I like the most

http://www.mobilephoneemulator.com/

Given the iPad accounts for maybe 60% of our mobile traffic, I'd say it would be very worthwhile picking one up to test on.

I just tried this one and it's working great for me!!


:thumbsup

I liked browserstack, here's a link I just found with mostly free alternatives...

1stwebdesigner com(slash)design(slash)tools-browser-compatibility-check

Better way to do it:
https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights

Helpful site. Also good for a webmaster wanting proof of why he needs to bill the client so many hours.