Blogs

Over the last few week's we've been covering the major bases from this years Mobile World Congress (MWC). We started with the latest Samsung Galaxy S7 series and now we're going full circle back to Samsung, this time to look at a few devices announced late last year.

On the 24th February Google launched AMP. Announced last October, AMP is an open source platform that aims to improve user experience of the mobile Web by reducing the possible complexity of Web pages.

As per usual for this time of year, there is a lot of new mobile hardware. We have just seen the tail end of Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2016 and in less than two weeks time, CeBIT in Hannover, Germany is also on the horizon. Before we get there, we have got a few more interesting handsets from MWC to take a look at.

Friday 4th March 2016 saw 180 web professionals all with an interest in progressive enhancement assemble in London for a one day conference organised by Simon McManus.

"The Web is the most hostile software engineering environment imaginable." - Douglas Crockford

I continue to be amazed at how the humble User-Agent is misunderstood. My purpose in writing this blog post is to reset some myths passed down from web professional to web professional over the years concerning User-Agents. This was typified in the debate and conversation I witnessed at Enhance Conference.

Now that the dust of Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2016 has settled we'd like to thank the GSMA for a great event as well as everyone who managed to meet us in person, it was a pleasure to put names to faces. In this weeks blog, we're going to continue where we left off last week.

Li-Fi is a Visible Light Communication (VCL) system. It uses Light Emitting Diodes (LED) to transfer data with speeds of up to 224 Gbps (Gigabits per second) making it a hundred times faster than current Wi-Fi technology.

The Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2016 in Barcelona is now in full swing and we've already seen several big device announcements earlier this week from the likes of Sony, Samsung, HTC and Huawei. If you've only just tuned in, there's still more to come, including press events from OPPO and Acer.

Now that Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2016 in Barcelona is well underway, we're going to have a quick look at some of the biggest announcements in the mobile industry so far. If you're at MWC and you'd like to meet the 51Degrees team you can find us in Hall 8, Stand UW 7.6, we look forward to seeing you there!

Device detection specialist, 51Degrees, has extended the fastest and most accurate device recognition solution to support native apps. The solution will be showcased at Mobile World Congress 2016 in Barcelona.

This week, with Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2016 just around the corner, we've selected one of the devices that was teased almost a year ago at MWC 2015, the Acer Predator 8.