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by t1tech 556 days ago
I've built https://cophone.io - your online smartphone, complete with a phone number. It is an Android system running in the cloud that you can access via a browser, even on mobiles. Things like microphone and webcam work nicely, so you can even have meetings on cophone.

After iterating on it for a while, customers seem very happy and now growing day by day.

No marketing so far, just being out there and posting on various channels once in a while.

4 comments

A small feedback: The poster image on your homepage (https://cophone.io/assets/images/virtual-smartphone-cophone....) is unnecessarily big (1.7MB). You can compress it into a much smaller JPEG without any visible defect. Maybe you don't need it at all as video will start playing soon anyway.
Here is a way smaller (only 97K) .webp version: https://files.littlebird.com.au/virtual-smartphone-cophone.w...
You mention national and international phone calls. Do these virtual devices appear local to the customers region, to where your servers are located or are there options?

Could someone use your service to run an Android device that behaves as if in the United States, for example, to use Android apps or web services that are region blocked and restrict use of VPN/Proxy?

US for now, but without any guarantee.
Wow, I've been looking for something like this. Can I bring my own esim?
Not yet, but something that I really would like to offer.
I would love a local-run version of this on my windows machine! Same subscription price is fine.
On my TODO list! Might take a while though!