UserAgent of Sidekick Slide (and LX)

Hello all!

I searched the web but I didn’t found the UserAgent string of Sidekick Slide and Sidekick LX. I would be very pleased if you could help me and publish this data here.

If you are a user of such a device and you don’t know the UserAgent you are able to help me by visiting http://ks.mobilziel.de/info.php - the page will show you the String of your Danger-mobile.

Thank you very much,
Jens

What are you on about.

Originally Posted by McJustice

What are you on about.

And a simple search on wikipedia bring up

Originally Posted by Wikipedia

A user agent is the client application used with a particular network protocol; the phrase is most commonly used in reference to those which access the World Wide Web, but other systems such as SIP uses the term user agent to refer to the user's phone. Web user agents range from web browsers to search engine crawlers ("spiders"), as well as mobile phones, screen readers and braille browsers used by people with disabilities. When Internet users visit a web site, a text string is generally sent to identify the user agent to the server. This forms part of the HTTP request, prefixed with User-agent: or User-Agent: and typically includes information such as the application name, version, host operating system, and language. Bots, such as web crawlers, often also include a URL and/or e-mail address so that the webmaster can contact the operator of the bot.

Although the OP is solely talking about our browser client the explanation should serve you well.

I just want to know this data because I want to provide mobile websites in a proper way to several mobile devices. For example a websites contains an image: a Sidekick II (240x160 pixel display) will receive a smaller picture than a Sidekick Slide (320x240 pixel display) because the server than knows that there are different display sizes.

A Hiptop I / Sidekick I and a Non-updated Sidekick II reveal this to the server:
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; AvantGo 3.2; ProxiNet; Danger hiptop 1.0)

My Sidekick II shows this string:
Mozilla/5.0 (Danger hiptop 2.0; U; AvantGo 3.2)

Maybe Danger is counting this part: Danger hiptop 2.0

Danger hiptop 2.0 for SK II !
Danger hiptop 3.0 for SK III ???
Danger hiptop 4.0 for ...

But I don’t know this and therefore I’m asking here.

Jens

I'll switch back to my sidekick 3 and grab all the info you need.
*edit*
Everything is pretty much the same besides a slight numeric change as you predicted.

Sidekick 3
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Danger hiptop 3.0; U; AvantGo 3.2)
width:240 and screen height:160
Sidekick SLide
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Danger hiptop 4.0; U; AvantGo 3.2)
width:320 and screen height:208
Sidekick LX
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Danger hiptop 4.4; U; AvantGo 3.2)
width:400 and screen height:208

Thank you very much for your help. I now have also checked my log-files and noticed that there was no device with hiptop 4.4 until yet but a useragent Mozilla/5.0 (Danger hiptop 3.4; U; AvantGo 3.2).

Thank you too for the display resolutions! For Slide & LX I always read a height of 240 pixels. Is 208 the the real hardware resolution or the resulting height (240 minus statusbar)? I thought Motorola is using a real QVGA display (320x240) for their Slide.

With best regards, Jens

Originally Posted by timbetu

Thank you very much for your help. I now have also checked my log-files and noticed that there was no device with hiptop 4.4 until yet but a useragent Mozilla/5.0 (Danger hiptop 3.4; U; AvantGo 3.2).

Thank you too for the display resolutions! For Slide & LX I always read a height of 240 pixels. Is 208 the the real hardware resolution or the resulting height (240 minus statusbar)? I thought Motorola is using a real QVGA display (320x240) for their Slide.

With best regards, Jens

Your correct the resolution is 320x240. I said 320x208 because that's all you see with the title bar shown. The same goes for the LX with 400x240 to 400x208 :)

This is my sidekick 3
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Danger hiptop 3.4; U; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050920
IP: Host: stxika12.dngr.net
screen width: 240 and screen height: 160