DeviceAtlas has partnered with several large data providers to supply you, our customer, with up-to-the-minute device detection data! From screen dimensions to user agent strings - we gather it all up and create an easily updated, plaintext, JSON file that is read by ...
Our APIs takes the plaintext JSON file that you hand to it, and quickly identifies exactly what device is accessing your services. You can check out our APIs' performance stats in the API FAQ section, or choose to download one of the many languages we support on our Downloads page.
Thanks to our extensive list of partners, our active community of device testers and our endless search for more data sources, DeviceAtlas has updates to its list of devices on a daily basis! With new devices being added all the time, and our data improving constantly, DeviceAtlas is an unstoppable force in the world of device detection.
Because DeviceAtlas is maintained by dotMobi, you can be sure of outstanding support if the need arises! You can contact us directly, or communicate with other device detection fanatics over on mobiForge!
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The simplest usage of DeviceAtlas is to redirect the visitor according to their profile. DeviceAtlas identifies whether the visitor is a mobile device, desktop browser, crawler, robot or other visitor type, allowing specific handling for each case. The simplest action is to redirect mobile traffic to a different set of pages for example.
The most common use case for DeviceAtlas is to adapt content dynamically on a web site, so that a visitor using a mobile device gets the optimum experience. This is necessary whether the device used is a high end touch screen device, or a low end WML only device, since the best impression will be made on the visitor if the site loads quickly and is easy to navigate on their device. DeviceAtlas provides all the information necessary on the device to support content adaptation decisions.
For sites that deliver content downloads to mobile devices, such as applications, games, video for example, it is critical that the format delivered is compatible with the receiving device. The cost of a support call in the event of an incorrect delivery typically erodes the profit from multiple successful sales, so the ROI is easily calculated.
DeviceAtlas is extremely valuable as a tool to analyse server logs to identify the nature of different traffic to a site. It can be used to scrutinise server logs to build a picture of historical traffic also, so that the overall volumes of mobile devices, their breakdown and frequency, can be established.