Search found 3 matches

by Viant
Wed Mar 11, 2020 4:31 pm
Forum: Device Detection Issues
Topic: Incorrect form_factor for iPhone user agent
Replies: 1
Views: 17791

Incorrect form_factor for iPhone user agent

Hi, I have a following iPhone user agent - "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone 6_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/528.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/7E18 Grindr/1.8.5 (iPhone3,1/6.1)". When I checked this on wurfl page , it identifies it as Apple iPhone; however form_factor is returned as Desktop ...
by Viant
Thu Feb 20, 2020 7:07 pm
Forum: Device Detection Issues
Topic: Device detection using form_factor
Replies: 4
Views: 26861

Re: Device detection using form_factor

Hi Aaron,

Thank you for your quick response.

If the intention is to detect the device type, which capability/ies are more reliable?
There are static capabilities like is_tablet, is_smarttv. However, is_smartphone is a virtual capability. Also, I don't see any to filter by feature phone.

Thanks!
by Viant
Thu Feb 20, 2020 4:23 pm
Forum: Device Detection Issues
Topic: Device detection using form_factor
Replies: 4
Views: 26861

Device detection using form_factor

Hi, We use multiple capabilities to detect device type which I'd like to consolidate.(Current WURFL version 1.11.4.0.) I was wondering if just using virtual capability "form_factor" serves the purpose to detect device types. Based on https://www.scientiamobile.com/capabilities, possible values for f...