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Detecting mobile devices is important as websites designed with large desktop computer screens in mind rarely perform well on a mobile device. Detecting such devices allows you to present content in the right fashion for the viewing device which improves website performance for your visitors and leads to better user experience. You will find many device detection products on the market and they all claim to be the fastest and most accurate but they do not provide proof. 51Degrees device detection solution achieves 99.97 percent accuracy with 5 million detections per second on hardware that costs less than 1000 USD which makes our solution the fastest, most efficient and hence most environmentally friendly. 51Degrees device detection is easy to deploy in PHP, .NET, Java, Perl, Python and C. In this article you will find test results for the 3 test hardware platforms we used as well as instruction on how to test our device detection solution in your environment in just 4 easy steps.

Following live trials lasting more than 6 months we're delighted to announce version 3 of the 51Degrees device detection solution is fully released.

Available to all, including free Lite users, key improvements include:

• Over 100 times faster device detection
• Reduced memory consumption and faster start up times
• Automatic image optimisation (PHP, Java and .NET)
• Future proof algorithms supporting potentially millions of device combinations

Huawei's latest flagship, the Ascend P7 was recently unveiled last week. Alongside this Huawei also has a smaller variant in the works named the Ascend P7 mini, the mini version is due to be commercially released at the same time as its bigger brother in June.

You can now download our latest Premium Device Detection Data, or upgrade now if you do not already benefit from our Premium service.

You can now download our latest Premium Device Detection Data, or upgrade now if you do not already benefit from our Premium service.

You can now download our latest Premium Device Detection Data, or upgrade now if you do not already benefit from our Premium service.

Research from The Search Agency shows that “9 of the [100] web-only [retail] companies used RWD”. That's 91 percent not using Responsive Web Design.

This week a combination of 154 new profiles have been added to our database.

Nokia has unveiled its new smartphone running Google's Android. It allows discovering and downloading hundreds of thousands of the world's popular Android apps.

The latest flagships from two of the the big hitters in the industry have been officially added this week. The devices in question are the new HTC One (M8) and the Samsung Galaxy S5.

This week a combination of 173 new hardware devices, browsers and operating systems have been added to the device detection database. You can now download our latest Premium Device Detection Data, or upgrade now if you do not already benefit from our Premium service.