On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Kyle Barrow wrote:
> Is the terminal ID good enough? It is included in the user agent:
> http://developers.vodafone.jp/dp/tool_dl/web/useragent.php
That's perfect! However, it's only available in some user agents; it
appears to depend on the age of the phone, among other things. I did a
little study; the results are here:
http://www.keitai-dev.net/keitai-wiki?VodafoneUserAgents
BTW, my favourite user-agent was:
UP.Browser/DoCoMo/J-PHONE/KDDI
Presumably this is a robot intending to make simple sites think it's a phone,
and confuse the heck out of more sophisticated sites.
BTW, while convenient for web site operators, it's a bit scary that
Vodafone is giving a common handset identifier to every web site you
access from your phone. The potential for some nasty information sharing
between sites in enormous. I would certainly make me think twice about
using them.
cjs
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Received on Wed Oct 12 04:16:57 2005