Smart TV and Smartphone Device Detection

[wurflaoltest]

Hello

We are using WURFL to identify Mobile Devices and OS for Browser data. However recently we noticed that below user_agents are being identified incorrectly through API. Below are few samples. Against each user_agent are device and OS identified by API.

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/6.0) Smart TV Others
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.2; Trident/6.0) Smartphone Windows Phone OS
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; Trident/6.0) Smart TV Others
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/6.0) omBrowser/1.4 (Winamp 5.65) Smart TV Others
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/6.0; BOIE9;ENUS) Smart TV Others
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/6.0; EIE10;ENUSWOL) Smart TV Others
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/6.0; MALC) Smart TV Others
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/6.0; MDDRJS) Smart TV Others
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/6.0; MAMD) Smart TV Others
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/7.0) Smart TV Others
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/6.0; EIE10;ENUSMSN) Smart TV Others

All user_agents looks like device should be Desktop. Please confirm if there are any issues since its important for our Analytics team.

Thanks
Gaurav

[sriram]

Hi Gaurav,

Thank you for your post. To help us look into this issue and replicate it on our end, what language and version of the WURFL API are you on and what date of the wurfl.xml file is it using?

Cheers!

[wurflaoltest]

1)We are using Java code for the xml file available through scientiamobile.com

2)We use the urlhttp://www.scientiamobile.com/wurfl/hpsbh/wurfl.zip to access the xml file directly using the WURFL API version 1.4.2

[sriram]

Hi Gaurav,

The WURFL API v1.4.2 is more than a year old. Please use a newer version of the WURFL API for optimal detection. Here is a link to the WURFL Java API v1.5.0.1.

Thanks and cheers!

[wurflaoltest]

Thanks Sriram. Can we be notified incase there are updates in future?

[sriram]

Hi Gaurav,

We do send out a quarterly newsletter to everyone with a Scientiamobile.com account, which contains information about new WURFL API releases, along with other updates. Our most recent newsletter was sent out on December 12 2013. If you did not receive that, please email us at cr (at) scientiamobile [.] com and someone from our Customer Relations team will get in touch with you.

Thanks and cheers!

[kamermans]

Also, there is a list for ScientiaMobile announcements which includes updates to the APIs. Everyone with a valid product licenses will already get these notifications, but you can also manually subscribe here: http://eepurl.com/iFtPn