getting ready for the attack of the killer mobiles...

spun from question of the year thread...

[littleman]

Eric_Jarvis, and tedster brought them up as the issue of the year.

Okay folks, what is the dominant resolution these things are set at?
What are their UAs?

Seems to me that these hand helds are going to bring UA delivering even more into the mainstream.

[rcjordan]

>mainstream

I can tell you that the US travel industry is watching this. For instance, sites that cater to quick look-up and booking of rooms for business travelers view handhelds as prize territory.

[msgraph]

Here is what I have logged so far today on one site. They keep showing up so I guess they are some of the more popular ones.

Nokia3330/1.0 (04.16) UP.Link/4.2.2.9

Mozilla/1.22 (compatible; MMEF20; Cellphone; Sony CMD-Z5) UP.Link/4.2.2.9

Mitsu/1.1.A UP.Link/4.2.2.9

Panasonic-GAD35/1.1 UP.Browser/4.1.24d UP.Link/4.2.2.9

EricssonT68/R101

Panasonic-GAD35/1.0 UP.Browser/4.1.22j

MOT-D5/4.1.5 UP.Browser/4.1.23c UP.Link/4.2.2.9

Nokia6210/1.0 (03.01)

SAMSUNG-SGH-A300/1.0 UP/4.1.19k

[Marshall]

Are all these devices going to be like browsers were each has its own quirky problems and you have to either design X number of versions of your site or include so many detection scripts so as to adversely affect download?

[Xoc]

Mozilla/2.0+(compatible;+MSIE+3.02;+Windows+CE;+PPC;+240x320)

This is for IE from the Compaq iPaq. It doesn't understand CSS or anything inside <? ?> brackets (as you might have in XHTML). Otherwise it renders fine. The 240x320 is the full screen size. There are two settings that you can use, a fit to screen where it automatically wraps at the end of a line, essentially putting a <br> tag after 240 pixels, and a normal view where you get horizontal and vertical scroll bars. You can turn off downloading graphics with a touch of a button.

A person could browse while it is sitting on its cradle, using a 802.11b wireless connection, or a wireless connection using cellular technology. In my area, AT&T Wireless offers a $30 a month unlimited download service. Modem card costs $300. Bandwidth the same as a 19.2 modem. If you roam outside of AT&T's coverage, though, you pay five cents a kilobyte!!! Keep me away from big graphics.

[txbakers]

I'm trying to detect the browser for my Blackberry using the following ASP code, but it shows up as "default". The same URL on IE shows up as IE (which is good I suppose...)

How will I know for sure if it's for the handheld?

code:
<% var bc = Server.CreateObject("MSWC.BrowserType") %>

[nicebloke]

New media consultants IDC predict that 23 million Europeans will be using their mobiles to buy travel products by 2005. [ananova.com]