Oh the wonders of Verizon… See this picture? Yea, that’s how I feel right now. Why you might ask? Verizon. Verizon is the reason I lay awake at night. Verizon is the reason I’m going gray early. Verizon is the reason I have sudden and sharp chest pains, but mostly, Verizon is the reason I waste more than half my day on testing content downloads. Ugh! What a waste of time!
When going through the certification process for most carriers, we set up the service and once it’s ready for testing, we send it back to the carriers and they do their thing. Though I’ve had my problems with Sprint and their audit system in the past, I have to say their carrier testing aspect is not nearly that difficult (knock wood). AT&T is a pleasure to work with as well. Verizon on the other hand…well, they’re not so easy.
Recently we received word from Verizon that for every content based campaign that we would liked provisioned, we must test on all of their priority 1 and priority 2 handsets. In layman’s terms this means that for every campaign that provides wallpapers, ringtones, or videos, we need to test said downloads on over 60 different handsets. Seriously Verizon?
I’m pulling out the conspiracy theory card on this one. There’s this company out there, for our sake let’s call them, MeMice MnyMhere, AKA the ‘Ultimate Mobile Application Testing Platform.’ They seem to have a gigantic foothold in the mobile testing area and they are pretty much the go to platform testing service in the US. (If you know of any others, please let us know.) Because of the new Verizon rules, MeMice MnyMhere is going to be seeing a drastic climb in their business. Additionally, the frustrating aspect is that MeMice MnyMhere doesn’t even have all the handsets that Verizon is requesting! There are 4 handsets on the Matrix I was provided by Verizon that I can’t even test on.
Oh, and by the way Verizon your phones aren’t the smartest of the bunch. Good thing you got the Droid, that might be a saving grace.
