User-Agent Detection and portable devices

EightNineThree wrote:

 > Can anyone point me to references on how PDAs and WAP Enabled phones
 > identify themselves?

I don't know specifically, but I do know that Opera is big in this area.
They have really focused their resources here; I guess its because they
sniff an opportunity at something MS doesn't totally control.

<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.opera.com/products/smartphone/products/" target="_blank">http://www.opera.com/products/smartphone/products/</a>

So I would suggest that those products would primarily identify
themselves as Opera - the proprietory software of other manufacturers
would do the same. I don't know if Opera would identify itself
differently to the PC version; other manufacturers would be easier to
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On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 15:20:34 +1000 David Venn-Brown
<davidvb.DeleteThis@notmydomain.com> broke off from drinking a cup of tea at to
write:

 >EightNineThree wrote:
 >
  >> Can anyone point me to references on how PDAs and WAP Enabled phones
  >> identify themselves?
 >
 >I don't know specifically, but I do know that Opera is big in this area.
 >They have really focused their resources here; I guess its because they
 >sniff an opportunity at something MS doesn't totally control.
 >
 >http://www.opera.com/products/smartphone/products/
 >
 >So I would suggest that those products would primarily identify
 >themselves as Opera - the proprietory software of other manufacturers
 >would do the same. I don't know if Opera would identify itself
 >differently to the PC version; other manufacturers would be easier to
 >identify (presuming their browser name is unique to PDA/WAP devices)
 >

I have user agent strings purporting to be "Nokia" phones accessing
the site. They may be faked, or they may be real.

I can dig out the full details from the logs if anyone's really
interested.

Matt

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"EightNineThree" <uce.RemoveThis@ftc.gov> wrote in message
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 > Can anyone point me to references on how PDAs and WAP Enabled phones
 > identify themselves?
 >
Usually with two rings and a yeah, gidday, anda howd ya be?

or you could do a google. and come up with possibilities like
<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.pgts.com.au/pgtsj/pgtsj0212d.html" target="_blank">http://www.pgts.com.au/pgtsj/pgtsj0212d.html</a>

or
<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.siteware.ch/webresources/useragents/db.html" target="_blank">http://www.siteware.ch/webresources/useragents/db.html</a>

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