Droid User Agent
Posted by joy
I noticed that some (unhip) person with a Motorola built Droid based phone on Verizon visited cleverhack the other day. I’m too lazy to pull my official logs, so here’s the sitemeter report. I am surprised to notice that the Droid runs a version of mobile Safari according to the User Agent string.
Operating System: Linux Unknown
Browser: Safari 1.3
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.2.1; en-us; DROIDX Build/VZW) AppleWebKit/533.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/533.1 854X480 motorola DROIDX
Javascript: version 1.5
Monitor
Resolution: 800 x 414
Color Depth: 32 bits
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December 19th, 2010 at 5:34 pm
The Android browser is based on Webkit so it’s “Safari-like” but not really Safari. It’s spoofed so Android phones get iOS formatted pages (since a page formatted for iPhone should render ok on Android devices too). The Android developer’s blog just had a post about the browser UA string a few days ago, incidentally.