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DeviceAtlas 2.4 adds Sprint data

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Posted by atrasatti 46 weeks 5 days ago
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DeviceAtlas 2.4 is our latest update and it comes with a very exciting new partner, the US carrier Sprint. Sprint has a very good developer site with many tools specific to their portal and devices and we are very excited to have the opportunity to add their device profiles to DeviceAtlas. Starting from today we will be adding data directly from Sprint that will either be mapped to existing devices thus adding a new source of data, and we will also be defining new devices that we did not know about before. Every time we can add such a highly regarded source it is always good for DeviceAtlas as it enriches existing data and makes the database broader.

Along with the addition of a new data source we also took the opportunity to apply a couple of minor fixes, for example you should now see a fresher list of the latest test sessions that I am very proud to say have now passed the 10000 (TEN THOUSAND) test results. We are very excited about the current usage and we invite you to test it yourself, especially with the new video-related tests. Also, user-submitted data now has a higher level of trust and this is just because we've seen the great usage you made of TA-DA ( http://ta-da.mobi/tests ), so keep up the good work.

Finally, you might have noticed that for a few minutes our device pages were all messed with properties and tables all over the page. We have changed completely how the device page is generated and moved around a few properties in a way that we think makes them more easily readable. This not only removes some ugly hard-coded lists from our software, but will give us the opportunity in the future to give to everyone the possibility to define how the device page looks like. In pure Web 2.0 spirit it will come with nice drag and drop features, of course!


Posted by atrasatti 46 weeks 5 days ago

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Andrea Trasatti is Director of Technology Strategy at dotMobi where among the other things he is leading the design and development of DeviceAtlas.
Prior to this Andrea has been a system administrator and a software developer for more than 10 years and a consultant for more than 5 years.
In Italy Andrea started developing the first WAP sites in late 1999 when the first WAP phone was about to be released. Since then he has been developing some of the most innovative services for mobile devices.
Andrea has also actively participated to W3C work first as an invited expert and later as author of one of the documents that was published by the Device Descriptions Working Group.

Posted by chaharv 35 weeks ago

Good to know about the latest data updates that device atlas is incorporating, however there are many properties for handsets which are still missing , few of them are:
1.Whether the handset has camera and its capabilities?
2.Whether the handset has video download option or not?
3.Does the handset has push email capability or not?

When do you plan to provide information for all these attributes?