If you have Mac running OS X 10.6 or later, you can use emulation to try out a great number of variations of the two dominant platforms. So instead of calling all of your friends to look at your new website project on their phones, I bring good news.

Even though there are currently two dominant mobile platforms (iOS and Android) whose web browsers are based on Webkit, it's still nearly impossible to have all of the mobile devices your audience may be using. Mobile browser testing is not only tedious and awkward, it presents a unique problem: access. One of the banes of a web developer's existence is browser testing.