Patent ID: 7970393

Claim:
A remote mobile communication device content development system, comprising: an internet communication link; a plurality of off the shelf portable communication devices that are not test enabled and not loaded with an application software being developed; a development authority, including: a storage media configured to store test-enable software that allows an off the shelf portable communications device to load an application from a developer, and that has been uploaded to the storage media, the test-enable software configured to automatically place the plurality of off the shelf portable communication device in a test-enable mode; a content developer including a computer and having an I/O system coupled to the plurality of off the shelf portable communication devices through the I/O system, and having the development authority provide the test-enable software to the content developer by the internet communications link so that the content developer can download in a single run the test enable software to the plurality of off the shelf portable communication devices serially so that the plurality of off the shelf portable communication devices are test enabled so that an application developer is then allowed to load an application onto the plurality of off the shelf portable communications devices; and loading the application onto the plurality of off the shelf portable communications devices after test-enabling then so that the application can be tested on the plurality of off the shelf portable communications devices.