Identify Palm or Blackberry

[William LaMartin]

Does anyone have a method of determining if a visitor to a web page is using
a Palm or Blackberry mobile device?

With the code below, I can easily identify a Window CE, Pocket PC or Window
Mobile device, but am having trouble with the Palm.

My problem is that for those individuals I know who use Palms to access the
Internet, their browser is called Blazer and it returns an operating system
of Win98 and a browser of IE--hardly anything that identifies the device as
a Palm or mobile. The IsMobileDevice below does not detect the Palm either.
My Blackberry tester has not yet responded to me whether he is redirected
properly or what sort of browser or OS information is produced.

Dim temp As String = LCase(Request.Browser.Platform)
If InStr(temp, "wince") 0 Then 'WinCE
'send them to the appropriate page for mobile
Server.Transfer("ppcDefault.aspx")
Else
'send them to a normal page
End If

If Request.Browser("IsMobileDevice") = True Then
'send them to the appropriate page for mobile
Server.Transfer("ppcDefault.aspx")
Else
'send them to a normal page
End If

[John Timney \(MVP\)]

have you read this, someone done quite a decent investigation into detecting
blackberries
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John Timney (MVP)
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http://www.johntimney.com
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Does anyone have a method of determining if a visitor to a web page is
using a Palm or Blackberry mobile device?

With the code below, I can easily identify a Window CE, Pocket PC or
Window Mobile device, but am having trouble with the Palm.

My problem is that for those individuals I know who use Palms to access
the Internet, their browser is called Blazer and it returns an operating
system of Win98 and a browser of IE--hardly anything that identifies the
device as a Palm or mobile. The IsMobileDevice below does not detect the
Palm either. My Blackberry tester has not yet responded to me whether he
is redirected properly or what sort of browser or OS information is
produced.

Dim temp As String = LCase(Request.Browser.Platform)
If InStr(temp, "wince") 0 Then 'WinCE
'send them to the appropriate page for mobile
Server.Transfer("ppcDefault.aspx")
Else
'send them to a normal page
End If

If Request.Browser("IsMobileDevice") = True Then
'send them to the appropriate page for mobile
Server.Transfer("ppcDefault.aspx")
Else
'send them to a normal page
End If

[John Timney \(MVP\)]

and the link might help :)

http://www.123aspx.com/redir.aspx?res=34655

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Regards

John Timney (MVP)
VISIT MY WEBSITE:
http://www.johntimney.com
"John Timney (MVP)" <x_****@timney.eclipse.co.ukwrote in message
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have you read this, someone done quite a decent investigation into
detecting blackberries
--
--
Regards

John Timney (MVP)
VISIT MY WEBSITE:
http://www.johntimney.com
"William LaMartin" <la******@tampabay.rr.comwrote in message
news:u6**************@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

>Does anyone have a method of determining if a visitor to a web page is
using a Palm or Blackberry mobile device?

With the code below, I can easily identify a Window CE, Pocket PC or
Window Mobile device, but am having trouble with the Palm.

My problem is that for those individuals I know who use Palms to access
the Internet, their browser is called Blazer and it returns an operating
system of Win98 and a browser of IE--hardly anything that identifies the
device as a Palm or mobile. The IsMobileDevice below does not detect the
Palm either. My Blackberry tester has not yet responded to me whether he
is redirected properly or what sort of browser or OS information is
produced.

Dim temp As String = LCase(Request.Browser.Platform)
If InStr(temp, "wince") 0 Then 'WinCE
'send them to the appropriate page for mobile
Server.Transfer("ppcDefault.aspx")
Else
'send them to a normal page
End If

If Request.Browser("IsMobileDevice") = True Then
'send them to the appropriate page for mobile
Server.Transfer("ppcDefault.aspx")
Else
'send them to a normal page
End If