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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.

In January earlier this year we released information about our plans to support operating system subversions. During April we made changes so that 51Degrees provides information about both Android and iOS software subversions. We're now happy to announce the imminent release of the second stage of our subversion plan, adding support for subversions in the native Android browsers.

Last week we added 229 new devices to the 51Degrees device detection database and we will have a look at some of the tablets that have been recently released by Denver Electronics.

51Degrees took a look at the first three month of browsing data for the Samsung Galaxy S4, S5 and S6 as well as the HTC One, HTC One (M8) and HTC One (M9). The objective was to see the volume of web browsing that each device took up as a proportion of browsing on all Samsung or HTC devices.

The world's biggest handset manufacturer Samsung, recently released two new models in the Galaxy A and J smartphone lineups. The Galaxy A8 and Galaxy J7 are both mid range handsets looking to set the bar higher for this market amid tough competition.

To gain a better understanding of where the tablet market stands today, without the overpowering ‘noise' that Apple creates, 51Degrees – a device detection company - has pulled together data from more than 3 billion unique web sessions per month based on a variety of Android tablets, and their percentage of web traffic, on a global and individual country scale (Germany, UK, USA and India.)