(keitai-l) Re: N_O_K_I_A user agent

From: Jonas Petersson <zap_at_xms.se>
Date: 02/07/05
Message-ID: <420716E8.1020106@xms.se>
Hi,

David wrote:
> I get those too. I'm thinking that this may be a new UA for a Nokia 9500 
> or 9300 (the "bricks"), but I really I don't have a proof except from 
> the fact that someone with this UA downloaded a copy of PocketMetro for 
> the Nokia 9500 from my website (http://www.clocklabs.com).
> 
> Gerhard Fasol wrote:
>>I suddenly have lots of the following user agents in one of
>>our logs:
>>
>>Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; N_O_K_I_A)
>>
>>Anyone know what this is? Are these NOKIA phones with
>>webbrowsers?

Well, it's certainly not a Nokia 9500, mine (v 4.44(01)) produces this
user agent:

"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Series80/2.0 Nokia9500/4.34.0
Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1)"

I don't have immediate access to our 9300, but I seriously doubt it
would flat out lie about the OS. (As I assume you know, it runs Opera,
which appears to have decided to spice the string in IE fashion to have
more chances on stupid website - it works pretty well too!)

In my experience, Nokias (at least non-keitai) are pretty good at
telling the correct OS and phone model - this is very useful when
building a site for .sis-file downloads as we can easily default to the
correct version - assuming that the user is downloading to the phone
where it is to be installed.

My best guess for the above user agent is that it is a Nokia proxy - or
possibly some kind of internal beta product. A lot of them seem to
originate from *.nokia.com sites.

			/ Jonas
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