IMPORTANT NOTE: THIS POST AND THE SUBSEQUENT LIST IS OUT OF DATE WITH JANUARY 21, 2013. Please read this newer post on the evolution of this directory or go directly to the succeeding OpenDeviceLab.com to look up a matching Open Device Lab in your area.
Whether you take care for the web, develop multiplatform apps or hack other stuff for different mobile platforms, you quickly realize there is more devices to take care of than your personal ones (insert own tablet and smartphone brand/model here).
Of course you need to test your stuff on much more than two or three real devices, we’re not going to discuss this here.
I completely realize that not everybody is as stupid as me, owning and nurturing a growing list of currently 29 30 32 34 internet connected mobile devices. I use to refer to the necessary care with the term “looking after my Tamagotchis”. You remember Tamagotchis? You must be as old as me, haha!
If you want to avoid the Tamagotchi-thing, there is a growing list of truly awesome people who have planted the seed for so called “Open Device Labs” around the globe (basically this is just another european invention, but I strongly assume other countries will follow – Update Sep 4, 2012: I just added the first US based lab to the list – Update Sep 11, 2012: Mobile Portland claims to have announced the first US one, but is not functional yet. Go guys!).
So if you want to test on a broad range of devices, check out a device lab near to you – and don’t forget to contribute!
ACHTUNG: DIESES VERZEICHNIS WIRD SEIT DEM 21. JANUAR 2013 NICHT MEHR AKTUALISIERT UND IST DEMNACH INAKTUELL. Bitte lese diesen Artikel über die Weiterentwicklung dieser Liste oder gehe direkt auf OpenDeviceLab.com um ein Open Device Lab in Deiner Nähe zu lokalisieren.
Europe
- Brighton Communal Device Lab, Brighton, United Kingdom, UK
- Mozilla’s Space, London, United Kingdom, UK
- Exeter-Web, Exeter, United Kingdom, UK
- Old Church School, Frome, United Kingdom, UK (just started)
- Cambridge Open Device Lab, Cambridge, United Kingdom, UK
- Cover-Up!, Bridgend, United Kingdom, UK
- Co.Up, Berlin, Germany, DE
- Open Device Lab Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, DE
- Open Device Lab Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, DE
- Open Device Lab Cologne, Cologne, Germany, DE
- modl, Malmö, Sweden, SE
- Oktavilla, Stockholm, Sweden, SE
- Amsterdam Open Test Lab, Amsterdam, Netherlands, NL
- Devicelab Arnhem, Arnhem, Netherlands, NL
- Netvlies, Breda, Netherlands, NL
Devaamo, Tampere, Finland, FI// seems to be nonfunctional/retired as of Sep 19, 2012- Helsinki Open Device Lab, Finland, FI // Thx Jordan Moore for the addition
- Netlife Research, Oslo, Norway, NO
- Fliptation, Zurich, Switzerland, CH // Thx Vedran Rudelj for the addition
- Open Device Lab Graz, Graz, Austria, AT
- Danish Open Device Lab, Vejle, Denmark, DK
- Antwerp Open Device Lab, Antwerp, Belgium, BE
IMPORTANT NOTE: THIS POST AND THE SUBSEQUENT LIST IS OUT OF DATE WITH JANUARY 21, 2013. Please read this newer post on the evolution of this directory or go directly to the succeeding OpenDeviceLab.com to look up a matching Open Device Lab in your area.
North America
- Mobile Portland, Portland, Oregon, USA (starting up) // Thx Viljami Salminen for the addition
- AJ Computers, Marietta, Georgia, USA // Thx Viljami Salminen for the addition
- MIGHTYminnow Web Studio & School, Oakland, CA, USA // Thx Bruce Bowman for the addition
- Device Lab DC, Washington DC, USA
- ODL BK, Brooklyn, NY, USA
- Open Ames, Ames, IA, USA
- Denver Mobile Lab, Denver, CO, USA // 1st virtual (crowdsourced) lab
- The Salt Mines, Columbus, OH, USA
Africa
- Nomad Device Lab, Cape Town, South Africa // mobile ODL
Asia
- Bangalore Open Device Lab, Bangalore, India, IN
- Hong Kong Open Device Lab, Hong Kong, HK
Australia
- Izilla, Newcastle, NSW, AU
IMPORTANT NOTE: THIS POST AND THE SUBSEQUENT LIST IS OUT OF DATE WITH JANUARY 21, 2013. Please read this newer post on the evolution of this directory or go directly to the succeeding OpenDeviceLab.com to look up a matching Open Device Lab in your area.
There is no Open Device Lab in your city? Establish one! LabUp! is here to help! Read more on the project.
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Do you know about an Open Device Lab that is not listed here?
Add a comment so I can update the list. Thanks!
- 20.08.2012
- Category: Awesomeness
- 33 Comments
Jordan Moore
September 03rd, 2012, 10:47
It’s heart-warming to see labs like this cropping up in different places, here’s a lovely one in Helsinki set up by @viljamis and @jonikorpi – http://opendevicelab.com/
Viljami Salminen
September 04th, 2012, 9:04
I think that the LDP Finland lab is actually located in Tampere, so it should say “LDP, Tampere, Finland, FI”.
There’s also a lab in USA, in Marietta: http://www.ajcomputers.com/news/introducing-open-test-lab-mobile-device-testing/
Jarkko
September 05th, 2012, 21:24
Just another minor correction related to LDP. LDP stands for Local Device Program and as such is not ‘open device lab’ perse. Instead Devaamo (http://devaamo.fi) which manages LDP can be considered as one :) So, perhaps the most accurate line would be ‘Devaamo, Tampere, Finland, FI’.
Vedran Rudelj
September 05th, 2012, 21:47
We have an open device lab too, here in Zurich, Switzerland http://fliptation.ch/#lab
Viljami Salminen
September 09th, 2012, 10:16
Mobile Portland is also building an Open Device Lab to Portland, USA, but I have no idea about the schedule of that project. Here’s the lab’s site: http://mobileportland.com/device-lab
Kristin Long
September 16th, 2012, 20:19
We have a device lab in Oakland – mightyminnow.com/location/open-mobile-lab/
It would be great to be listed as MIGHTYminnow Web Studio & School, Oakland, CA, USA
Thanks for your post and your work!
Steve Barnett
September 17th, 2012, 11:13
Hello there.
I’m trying to get one off the ground in Cape Town, South Africa: http://devicelab.co.za/ .
Daniel Spronk
October 01st, 2012, 15:30
Thanks for listing us, but you have pointed Device Lab Arnhem to our own website (www.eight.nl), not the lab website! The lab website is http://www.devicelabarnhem.nl. If you could fix the URL that would be great!
cheers,
Daniel
David Hund
October 02nd, 2012, 16:52
Thanks a lot for listing us at Arnhem (NL). However, our website is not eight.nl but http://devicelab.nl Cheers!
Andre Jay Meissner
October 03rd, 2012, 13:51
@Daniel/David: Fixed, but I took Davids Version! ;)
Martin Berglund
October 08th, 2012, 13:20
Thanks for listing our lab. The name of the lab is not correct.
‘OSS, Oslo, Norway, NO’ should be ‘Netlife Research, Oslo, Norway, NO’
Andre Jay Meissner
October 08th, 2012, 13:47
@Martin: fixed, thanks for the heads-up!
Paul Irish
October 16th, 2012, 1:25
This list is tremendous. Thanks for putting it together along with lab-up.org. I wonder if it’d make more sense if the list was hosted over there.
From a tag perspective it’d probably have slightly better SEO chances over there I bet.
Also from here it’s hard to tell if any of these labs favor native or mobile web development. Knowing that sort of detail would be really useful.
Thanks again for starting this up! It’s huge
Andre Jay Meissner
October 16th, 2012, 20:41
@Paul, thanks for the comment and your suggestions. Actually we plan to host a very detailled list including geobased services, an API and more at opendevicelab.com – where subdomains incl. DNS-Records like helsinki.opendevicelab.com are already available today via LabUp (to max out SEO). We’re looking for contributors to help with coding, can you help spreading the word?
Paul Irish
October 17th, 2012, 21:23
sounds good to me!
Jen
November 15th, 2012, 15:34
We’ve opened our lab in Bridgend, South Wales (UK) today!
http://www.coverupaccessories.com/giving-back/open-device-lab
Steve Barnett
November 18th, 2012, 14:17
Hello again.
Nomad Device Lab is up and running and the sessions are up at http://www.meetup.com/Nomad-Device-Lab/ .
Thanks!
Jan Kus
December 26th, 2012, 11:09
Hi. We’ve are in process of opening our lab. The missing parts are the Devices (I started to give away my own).
Can you list our lab here:
Open Device Lab Cologne, Cologne, Germany, DE
Viljami Salminen
December 28th, 2012, 9:55
Jay, could you please fix the Helsinki Lab’s link to point to http://devicelab.fi , thank you! :)
Manu Medina
January 25th, 2013, 14:01
We have just opened a new ODL in Madrid: http://www.testeolab.com
Thanks for all the information
Christefano
October 04th, 2013, 8:50
Droplabs recently opened an Open Device Lab in Los Angeles, California. See http://droplabs.net/about/open-device-lab for all the details.