We intend this to be the single largest, most comprehensive, and accurate device database on the planet and to provide the supporting tools, techniques and assistance that you need to take that data and use it to rock your mobile users' world.

Anyone can register and use the DeviceAtlas web site. Come in and browse the site! But we expect that the most useful aspect of the data is how it can be used by mobile web developers and content providers to ensure their services are well adapted for a wide range of different mobile devices.

DeviceAtlas is about device profiles, we do not have popularity or market share at this time.

Because it's like an atlas. Of devices.

DeviceAtlas data comes from a variety of sources. Some is gathered from public domain sources, such as the User-Agent Profile resource for devices and the excellent WURFL project. Some is licenced directly from device manufacturers, network operators and infrastructure and tools providers. Increasingly, data will be provided by you, the community of mobile developers and users.

The particular companies that have donated data to the DeviceAtlas project - and who have participated in beta programmes and so on - are listed at the bottom of this page

Naturally we often get conflicting data about devices from different sources. In those cases, we use a weighted system to choose the most likely value for a given property. If everyone agrees what a device's screen size is, then that's easy. If most people agree, then we take the most popular answer and adjust the value's confidence factor downwards slightly.

Profiles of pre-sales are often locked under Non-disclosure agreements. Nevertheless we have partnerships with device vendors, if they decide to provide that information to us, we will have it and make it available as quickly as possible.

DeviceAtlas contains WURFL data as well as data from other sources. In fact, Andrea Trasatti from WURFL has come over to dotMobi to build this next generation database. For W3C CC/PP, weve already implemented the User Agent Profile portions that have come from the OMA work in that we have imported many of the UA Profiles that are readily available. We've also insured that that DeviceAtlas complies with the W3C Device Description Working Group. We've committed to ensure that the DeviceAtlas API is W3C DD compliant and have a preview of the API available for download, while we wait that the recommendation document is completed. The attributes that we present are a superset of the W3C DD note. But future CC/PP work is also about client side browser configuration that is currently outside of our scope as it has not yet been approved and implemented at this point in time. We will support this when it is available.

We are the people behind the .mobi domain name - the only web address that indicates that a site has been designed for mobile users. You can read about us here.