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Developing websites to accommodate for mobile devices has now become standard practice. However, what happens when developers need to determine between different mobile devices (tablets, smartphones, e-readers, games consoles etc)?

This week both Nokia and Blackberry announced new devices targeting developing markets. 51Degrees.mobi take a look at which smartphone operating system is being used the most to browse the web in emerging markets (based on the IMF listing).

With new flagship devices being released over the last few months, hardware vendors are chasing Apple and Samsung for 3rd place. This week 51Degrees.mobi looks at web traffic from the flagship smartphones of Nokia, Blackberry, HTC and Sony over the last 4 months.

This week 51Degrees take a look at how web traffic from the most popular Nokia Lumia devices grew after they were released to consumers.

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IsEmailBrowser is a new beta property that has been added to the 51Degrees.mobi property library. IsEmailBrowser can be used to indicate whether a HTTP request was sent from an email client or from a regular browser.

To celebrate our new office move, the 51Degrees team took to the streets of Reading for an evening filled with tasty food and beverages. We stopped off at the handmade burger Co restaurant that was recently opened in Reading at the start of the year. We all had a great experience, with fantastic food and a great environment; however, there was something that left a sour taste in our mouth.

With HTC's new flagship device being released in the US at the end of this month (if it isn't delayed again!), we take a look at the mobile web traffic from HTC's most popular devices over the last 15 months.

With Google announcing their new rendering engine "Blink" earlier this week, this edition of Chart of the Week shows the percentage of web traffic from Google Chrome Mobile vs the native Android browser over the last 15 months.

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