Incorrect form_factor for iPhone user agent

[Viant]

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 along with is_mobile = false, which looks incorrect.

Can you please take a look?

[aaronp]

Hi Viant,

Thanks for letting us know. To clarify, the tools.scientiamobile.com page you've referenced will show the capabilities of your current browser if an iPhone user agent is passed.

If you run the same user agent through the WURFL API, form_factor will return as Feature Phone. Do note that iPhones will not be identified as a Smartphone if the iOS version is missing from the user agent string (which is the case here), or if the iOS version is too old to be considered a Smartphone by our definition (minimum iOS version to be considered a smartphone is iOS 7).

I have gone ahead and created a separate ticket thread for you so please check your email and feel free to respond with any further questions or concerns there!

Thanks,

Aaron

[satmighty]

The user agent you provided appears to be from an iPhone device running Grindr version 1.8.5. It's strange that the WURFL page identifies it as a desktop device with is_mobile = false, as this user agent string clearly indicates it's from an iPhone.