[jwells89]

I’ve had no trouble with Simulator, but the run down battery bit is indeed a problem. It’d be nice if one could get ahold of versions of phones/tablets that have a dummy battery that presents itself as fully charged when plugged in. No point in burning through lithium cycles on test devices.

[a1o]

A version that would run without batteries would be super sweet! I understand such dev-kit for phones/tablets may not benefit from economy of scale and may be expensive but it would be nice to have the option. They could be built to be stackable, so you put them in a furniture or maybe even in a rack of devices. But once you are developing for phones and tablets and you have one device on each system version, different sizes and all, it gets really boring getting each of the drawer and charging and testing and all. Once in a while I see some offer of a platform that has these things remotely accessible through as a service, but it's not the same as having the devices available for real touch.