DeviceAnywhere (News - Alert), a provider of end-to-end solutions for mobile content development, testing, monitoring, certification, test automation and deployment, and the Brazilian IT Services Company, Certified, have partnered with Vivo, the mobile phone service provider in Latin America, to launch the Vivo Virtual Developer Lab (VDL).

Available to all members of the Vivo developer community, the Vivo VDL is said to provide remote access to over thirty physical mobile devices from anywhere in the world and it will ensure that the recently announced Vivo downloads store is populated with content that meets the highest standards of usability and reliability.

“Vivo continues to differentiate itself from its competitors due to our continued search for excellence in the services we offer and the strong relationships this has created with our customers,” said Alexandre Madeira Fernandes, product and services director for Vivo, in a release.

“The content and applications we offer to our customers through the Vivo downloads store is no exception to this and we are therefore committed to providing best in class testing and certification tools through our partnership with DeviceAnywhere to our developer community to maintain those standards,” Fernandes added.

VDL is built on DeviceAnywhere’s Direct-to-Device technology, an approach that provides access to real handsets in live global networks, from anywhere.

Latin America represents one of the fastest growing markets for mobile, with Pyramid Research predicting smartphone sales to grow from 7 million smartphones sold in 2009, to 48 million in 2014 representing 30 percent of total sales.

Faraz Syed (News - Alert), chief executive officer at DeviceAnywhere said that the company is expanding its footprint to support this exiting new market with the launch of the Vivo Virtual Developer Lab.

“We are pleased to offer Vivo subscribers access to the widest range of mobile devices possible as part of our commitment to enable the development of quality mobile content across the globe,” Syed added.