Blogs

On September 24th BlackBerry released their newest smartphone. The device goes by the name of the BlackBerry Passport. It is targeted to business professionals and has an interesting form factor. Find out more here.

This week we will look at how the price band of devices used for Web access has changed since January 2014. Data in this article represents aggregated device data in the US. Using the 51Degrees PriceBand property in Device Detection is beneficial for website analytics to gain significant understanding of visitors or clicks. Such data is especially useful when combined with other analytics data and used for the purposes of A/B testing.

Images and graphics can often cause websites to take a significant amount of time to load and constitute a large chunk of traffic. This is especially a problem for devices with slow Internet connection. Using RWD does not eliminate this problem either. This article will demonstrate how easy it is to use 51Degrees Image Optimiser and provide two examples in PHP.

James Rosewell, founder and CEO of 51Degrees will be sharing his knowledge about often unrevealed areas that have an impact on a start-ups success or failure. If this subject is of interest to you, you should come and meet James at this occasion.

QR codes have been around for 20 years and have now appeared everywhere. They're an ideal method of gaining instant feedback, entering competitions, providing additional information to customers or all 3.

This blog highlights 3 simple techniques to consider when using QR codes. Using a recent UK McDonalds campaign as an example I show how it could be improved to provide an experience I'd really love.

In this Chart of the Week we will look at the general distribution of Internet traffic originating from Sony mobile devices per country and examine several significant markets for Sony. Data represents devices used to access the Internet and not the actual device volume figures.

This week introduces LG 's smartphone G3S D724 that was announced in July 2014 and was released in August 2014.

For the first time 51Degrees brings insight into the retail price of mobile and tablet devices accessing the web. Using US dollar pricing the most popular mobile devices have been classified into price bands between $50 and $999. Charts show which price bands are the most popular along with details of the top devices in each price band.

Device detection brings meaning to user agents. When used in aggregate analysis of web log files insights can be gained about the characteristics of device accessing a web site. This information can then be used to make smarter design decisions improving user experience and return on investment. Properties available include screen size, supported input methods, web browser capabilities and much more.

This example is written in Java and can be downloaded directly from our website.

Like Motorola, Apple have also decided to hold their very own press event in California at their Cupertino headquarters, rather than at the Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin (IFA). As the dust settled and details emerged we finally got a look at the new iPhone 6 lineup, the iPhone 6 Plus, the iPhone 6 and the first official look at the Apple Watch.