Device Detection

Here at 51Degrees, we pride ourselves on the accuracy of our data and as such research our device information using trusted vendor sources, unlike ScientiaMobile.

With the excitement of Mobile World Congress 2018 now over, and many new smartphones revealed over the last few weeks, we were pleased to add the Samsung Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ smartphones to our device database. In this blog, we look at these new devices and how they compare to the previous models. We also share some example user-agents.

We are currently running some system maintenance checks and are aware that Hash Trie Data files have not been updated since yesterday (19th March 2018). We will post an update once the files are available to download again.

In this video we go through how to set up our device detection solution on a Linux machine using NGINX, add properties to call from the data file and finally check that the results are being returned as response headers on the site.

51Degrees™ provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date device data with rapid API capabilities. The seamless integration between the 51Degrees™ device detection technology and the Sitecore Experience Platform offers unprecedented insights and opportunities for marketers to deliver the experiences that customers want.

Tablet device sales have been declining in recent years. In Dec '17, our data showed that 59.83% of our clients' web traffic came from mobile devices, with 16.22% of that coming from tablets. While not a formidable figure compared to smartphones, it still represents a large enough share to show that brands and e-commerce sectors still need to respect that tablet usage is still present and they need granular device data to optimise their online content. In this article, we take a look at the most popular tablets globally and Apple's dominance in the tablet market.

Adform partners now benefit from the fastest and most accurate device detection improving yield through better device targeting and enhanced analytics in the programmatic environment.

In August 2017, 51Degrees wrote an article outlining Samsung Internet usage trends. We revisit the usage trends four months on and highlight what has changed.

This video demonstrates the problems Publishers still face, but will often deny they need to address, with regard to optimising content for mobile devices. We share a typical user experience using facts from real world tests on popular news sites.

In July 2017, after eight long years of deliberation, the European Patent Office (EPO) finally granted Afilias Technologies Ltd patent EP2245836B1 "Determining a property of a communication device". 51Degrees, the company I founded and still run, opposed this patent not because we think it affects any of our current products but because it attempts to monopolise the earlier WURFL (Wireless Universal Resource FiLe) solution now run by ScientiaMobile along with other well-known computing techniques.