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Last week we added support for 168 new devices

Sitecore is delighted to announce its formal partnership agreement with 51Degrees. 51Degrees will be Sitecore's Device Detection service provider. Sitecore is a leader for eight years running in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for web content management. 51Degrees already provides Device Intelligence to over 1.5 million websites worldwide.

After the official release of the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus at the end of September, alongside the latest version of iOS, the data team at 51Degrees were able to process the available User-Agents across all platforms.

We check out the re-release of an old favourite feature phone and test the device detection results. The new Nokia 3310 does not have a standard User-Agent compared to the majority of mobile devices we detect. The User-Agent for the Nokia 3310 comes as part of the HTTP header produced by Opera Mini, which is the pre-installed data-saving browser for this device.

As part of our continual improvement programme we would like to take this opportunity to inform our customers of an improvement we are making in the near future.

Last week we added support for 192 new devices.

This essential blog compares the approach used by 51Degrees and DeviceAtlas. It describes the high-level operation of each product, areas of difference and associated intellectual property. In simple terms, it will help readers match products to common use cases and formulate tests for evaluation.

At 51Degrees we detected User-Agents for the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL over five months before the phones were publicly released, we first detected the development codename of the two devices, walleye and taimen, shortly followed by the formal moniker.

Last week we added support for 172 new devices

51Degrees is regularly evaluated against competitors DeviceAtlas and WURFL from ScientiaMobile for performance, accuracy and memory consumption. This blog post builds on the previous performance blog from 2016 with the same commodity hardware; 1) a Raspberry Pi, 2) a low-end desktop PC and 3) a high-end multi CPU server, but using an all new algorithm.