The Profile Selector comes preconfigured with a series of popular phone and tablet device profiles, such as Samsung Galaxy S III, Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and HTC One X. Here we will discuss the different options available in the Profile Selector. This Profile Selector allows you to spawn different instances of Opera Mobile on your desktop to accurately test different phone configurations, as seen in Figure 3. When you first open the Opera Mobile Emulator, you’re presented with the Profile Selector - see Figure 2.
It’s a small, native application that’s easy to install on your desktop machine and runs exactly the same code as its mobile phone version - that way, you can be assured that what you’re seeing on your test environment is practically identical to the experience your end users will get. Our Opera Mobile Emulator for Windows, Linux and Mac makes things a whole lot easier. Making sure that your site looks great and works exactly as it should in mobile and tablet browsers can often be a tedious process - you typically need one or more physical devices, or some form of virtual machine emulating the whole operating system, and that’s just the start.
Figure 1: Opera Mobile Emulator running on Mac Introduction
