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51Degrees device detection solutions include rich and consistent meta data. Available properties and values can be returned from a 51Degrees data set object instance. This blog shows how to work out the length of the longest value that can be returned. The information can be used to allocate sufficient space to store results.

Continuing the trend this week with another company based in the Asian continent, we take a look at some of the newest offerings from the Chinese manufacturer ZOPO. All the devices discussed can be detected with 51Degrees latest Data File update, optimise your mobile website for them all today.

This week we take a look at another huge multinational technology company from Asia, Lenovo. Founded in Beijing in 1984 under the name Legend, in 2002 the name was changed to Lenovo. This is a portmanteau of "Le-" (from Legend) and "novo", Latin for "new". All the devices discussed in this article can be detected with our latest data file.

This week it is Samsung's turn to have a couple of their latest mobile devices under the microscope. All devices in this article can be detected with our latest data file update.

Did you know that you can use the 51Degrees device data file not only for device detection, but also for enhancing the report generating tools, enhancing the analytics data and exposing parts of data to improve client experience? This article demonstrates how to use the signature entities from the 51Degrees data file to produce a subset of signatures based on one or more property.

Microsoft suggests that Windows 10 has had great initial success with 75 million devices installing the upgrade just four weeks after it was released. The company's marketing chief, Yusuf Mehdi, said “the operating system is being downloaded and installed faster than any previous version of the platform”.

This week we focus on two new offerings from ZTE. Initially founded 30 years ago as Zhongxing Semiconductor Co. Ltd in Shenzhen, China. 12 years ago Zhongxing Semiconductor changed its name to Zhongxing New Telecommunications Equipment Co. from where we get the ZTE moniker. All of the devices in this article can be detected with our latest data file update available for download now.

This week we take a quick look at two of the newest Archos mobile devices. Archos is a French electronics company established in 1988 which manufactures tablets, smartphones, portable media players and data storage devices. All the devices in this article can be detected with our latest data file update.

Continuing the recent trend we take a quick look at three of the newest budget smartphones on the market, all three of these devices are included in this week's data update which is available for download now.

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.