Smart Phone Emulators

All the online, browser based emulators that I looked at, never rendered web pages like a real mobile phone.  So best choice was so set up a stand alone emulator:

Android

Android Virtual Device - Easy to install, can select different versions, and set initial RAM.  Saves bookmarks between sessions, can use keyboard to enter text

Windows Phone 7

Be careful of requirements for graphics card.   Does not save info between sessions, cant use keyboard, must use virtual keyboard.

Apple

Have not tested yet, need to run this on Apple machine.

List of Emulators


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Michael Johnson (Shawnee Univ) suggested these online emulators:

http://iphonetester.com/

Safari as an emulator:  http://www.mydigitallife.info/how-to-emulate-iphone-change-user-agent-in-safari-and-firefox-web-browser/

I tried both, and neither produced output like a regular iPhone. They may convince a webserver that they are  an iPhone, but then they don’t render the HTML/CSS as an iPhone does.
For example, they ignore this tag
<meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale=0.5, maximum-scale=1.5" /> 

Below:
LEFT: Safari with user Agent set to iPhone.  
Right:  Android emulator (matches what I see on iPhone)