Device Detection

51Degrees is regularly evaluated against competitors DeviceAtlas and WURFL from ScientiaMobile for performance, accuracy and memory consumption. This blog post builds on a 2015 performance blog with three new commodity hardware benchmarks on; 1) a Raspberry Pi, 2) a low-end desktop PC and 3) a high-end multi CPU server to provide information engineers will find helpful when selecting a device intelligence solution.

51Degrees Data Team presents the latest devices and profile combinations update.

Large bag of crisps at my side and headset on (‘HMD’ if you must), I nestle into the comfiest armchair in the house.  The soft padding of the headgear feels secure and reassuringly weighty as it encloses my skull, and with all peripheral vision also blocked off, I feel I have just announced “Do Not Disturb” to the rest of the household. 

So it looks like the vintage Nokia 3310 that's been living in my pashmina drawer for the past five years might be finding itself a new home.  A handy new German site uses 51Degrees’ device detection software to identify your device and display an appropriate trade-in price comparison table.

In today’s modern web infrastructures the possibilities for your website are endless, ranging from CMS, all the way to the language your site is built on. Some of these can be quite restrictive, but one thing that almost every website is able to use is JavaScript. This blog is aimed at those who may not be able to use languages such as Java or .NET to access our cloud service and to show you how to get it working with nothing more than basic JavaScript.

51Degrees, a device detection, web and mobile app optimisation and analytics specialist, today announces it has been granted an EU patent for its device detection technology.

Over the past months we have been working on improving the speed and efficiency of our Java API. We are happy to announce that as of today the API has officially been released to beta and is available for download. The API features improved auto update, better caching, support for V3.2 data files and more. Check out the list of changes.

51Degrees data analysis team stress tested a range of real iPhone and iPad devices, both old and new using all the major web browsers in order to determine if CPU stress testing is a viable additional method to identify iPhone and iPad models alongside User-Agent analysis, screen information and WebGL API

The full results are available for download along with the analysis of the differences between each device and browser.

Last week 51Degrees data team added 239 devices into the device database. Among them: Microsoft Lumia 640 XL smartphone which was first presented at MWC15 in Barcelona.

Last week 51Degrees added 195 devices into a database, including Asus ZenFone 2 smartphone. This new device was presented at MWC15 in Barcelona and is already in our database. Also now 51Degrees supports iOS operating system subversions.