   Finally... Porting! (mobile games)
  We have been working on one project, and we are almost done to start porting. The main issue is, how to do it. Our first option is to call a porting farm... to expensive.Now, if it's  done by our selfs, how to? We are thinking on "buy" everysingle cellphone, and start testing and porting. But, is there an easy and cheaper way? I mean.. maybe Nokia; sonyericsson, samsung, motorla, and so on; has emulators, so we dont need to buy the cell phones...Any ideas?Thanks   
  they all have emulators.  look around on the developer areas of their websites.-me   ;  Whether they may/may not have emulators isn't going to be your biggest issue. Your biggest issue is going to be the inconsistencies between the handsets. For example Samsung has a few different SDK and emulators for their handsets but they do not reflect the behavior on the different handsets they represent. Porting is a large task that is best done with the handsets or with another porting house or good testing house with all the handsets.   ;  For a commercial game you really should be testing it on real devices and not just emulators. If you plan on buying phones then that's a lot of phones. Most of the bigger manufacturers have started categorizing their phones into platforms so you can start out buy getting one phone from each platform (for example: Sony Ericsson Standardization Groups). You might also be able to get loaners, either from the manufacturers themselves (often you'd have to register for their developer support for this, sometimes that costs money), or from the network operators (maybe you can offer them exclusivity or a better deal on the game). And finally, there are sites like getjar where you can set up public beta tests.shmoove   ;  I just bought the Nokia usb Cable. Ok... i have a 6670, i have installed aplications, without any issue. now, i tried to install our aplication in the 3200 model. Downloaded the PCSuit, but as soon as i start installing that one, the 6670 pc suite start to uninstalling. Whats going on? how can i upload aplications without having to install all the suites, or in the other case, installing all the suites, but dont unistall the other ones?Thanks   ;  Hi Goguigo,I am a mobile applications developer who would like to get more real-world game development experience, including games testing. If helpful for you, I would be happy to test your game on my current handsets (Nokias 6600 (MIDP1.0), 6680, 6280, and N70) in exchange for using the experience in my job applications.I have several years of testing mobile applications, and you can read a bit more about me in this thread!http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=392558If you're interested, drop me an email: ryanmobiledev@googlemail.comRegards,Ryan.   ;  try Oxygen Phone Manager to handle uploading to nokia and other handsets. it's a very good tool.   ;  PC Suite works with all Nokia's AFAIK, or at least the one I have here does.   ;  As pkelly83 says, PCSuite should work with all handsets. The newer handsets (e.g n70, 6280) will all be recognised by the same PC Suite. However some handsets (e.g. my older 6600) are not recognised and seem to need the older version of PC Suite that came with it. For example I have 3 different versions of PC Suite installed on my machine at the moment.I've had trouble with this in the past when using one would cause the other to require re-installation.I'm afraid you will come across problems like this especially with Nokia software, as, in my experience, I find their software to be more "tricky" than most other manufacturers.Stick at it!Ryan.   ;  Ryan. What PC suites do you have installed? and... in what order did you install them in your pc?Thanks   