Have you been looking for a way to test your iPhone application or to try that new iPhone game “online” ?
Well, everything is possible. There are many iPhone emulators available on the net. Let’s review some of them!

IPhone Emulator vs. IPhone Simulator

Make sure that you know the difference between simulator and emulator. An emulator can run the real iPhone applications while a simulator only simulates functonalities. If you want to play the iPhone games, you will need an emulator!
Difference between emulator and simulator

iPhone Emulator Firefox:

At one of the sun.com blogs I found an emulator simulator for Firefox. It basically allows you to simulate the iPhone browser. You can download the firefox plugin here: Firefox iPhone Emulator Simulator. The file you can download at that site is a .xpi the firefox plugin file format. To install the plugin simply unpack the zip and then drag and drop the file into the firefox. It will then automatically install the iPhone emulator simulator.

This comes in handy when you want to find out how your own website looks on an iPhone. Be aware of the fact that this simulator does not change your user agent. To do that you will need another plugin that allows you to switch the user-agent.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59

User-Agent info for the iPhone:
Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en)

Online iPhone Simulator

Don’t want to install another firefox plugin? There’s a great alternative! You can simply go to http://www.testiphone.com/ and then browse to your own website or do whatever you want to do.

iPhone Emulator for Mac:

You can get a real emulator for MAC.
There’s an SDK (Software Development Kit) for the MAC that lets you emulate the iPhone for real.

What you can do is to install MAC OS X and then dual boot Windows Vista and Leopard. Boot Leopard, install the SDK and you can run your emulator. Because that is a lot of trouble to emulate an iPhone, there’s a great alternative

Download iPhone Emulator Torrent (MAC)

iPhone Emulator for Windows / PC

There’s a tool that allows you to really emulate the iPhone on Windows. There’s no need to install the iPhone SDK, although it would be pretty interesting! The tool I’m talking about can not only emulate the iPhone but also the Palm Pre.

Go to http://www.genuitec.com/mobile/ and download the emulator. Install it and start developing applications for the iPhone.

• iPhone emulator and development environment – no need for the iPhone SDK
• iPhone application development for Windows
• Palm Pre emulator and development environment
• Mobile Web development environment
• PhoneGap support for cross-device compatability
• Other popular smartphone emulators (coming soon)
• Blackberry Storm simulator (coming soon)
• Google G1 emulator (coming soon)

Note Mobione only works on Windows XP and Windows Vista not Windows 7!

Play iPhone Games Online

Don’t want to check your website on the Iphone or develop an iPhone application? If you want to play the iPhone games online, simply go to

http://www.ipfun.org/

The site is loaded with iPhone games that you can play online without downloading anything.

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