New Zealand

Congratulations to Lars Oliver Dam of Brightwater, New Zealand—EQO Communications latest Beta Tester of the Month!

Lars Oliver Dam has been testing out EQO Mobile on his Sharp GX17. Well, maybe testing isn’t quite the right word. Lars Oliver Dam didn’t make it to the testing stage, as he got stuck trying to get EQO mobile on his phone. First off, the text message never arrived on his phone. Secondly, when he tried http://www.eqo.com/a, he got an error that said that the download was too big. What's more, when he tried to Bluetooth the file over to his Sharp, the .jar file was accepted, but the .jad was rejected. Lars has earned this award by keeping a positive attitude while patiently trying every method known to Man for downloading EQO Mobile onto his phone. In the end, we both decided that his mobile phone model could not be supported by this version of EQO Mobile. Personally, I believe that our next release will work on Lars’ phone (because we are adding new and improved methods of download), but we’ll just have to wait and see!

There are hundreds of phones on the market today. At EQO, we can’t possibly test all of these models ourselves. Although I would like to try out every phone, some devices are not accessible or affordable enough for us to get our hands on. This is where the EQO community plays a huge role in our success. Anytime I get a report from a Beta tester claiming success or failure I can either add it to our growing list of supported phones or I can cross it off our wish list. And even though the failures are disappointing to hear about at the time, they are still valuable for the data that they provide to us for future development.