A new Android-specific forum for news, updates, technical advice and support plus development tools and SDK plugins has been launched on Samsung's developer site.

While a forum usually implies a place to meet up with and interact with fellow developers, Samsung Mobile Innovator, which already has sections for Java, bada and Windows Mobile, is primarily about resources and guidance and chit chat is conspicuously lacking.

As far as Android developers are concerned,  one of its really attractive features is accessed by clicking the Lab.dev button. RTL is a remote test laboratory that allws the installation and testing, over the Web of apps on Samsug devices. To use it you need to set up a (free) user account. This provides you with credits (10 per day) with one credit buying 15 minutes in RTL (subject to a minimum period of 30 minutes and a maximum of 10 hours per day.

Visit the Samsung Android site