To counter the success of the iPhone, Microsoft is revamping its mobile operating system, according to Ars Technica. "Never one to back down from a challenge, Microsoft is busily preparing both a minor UI refresh (Windows Mobile 6.1) and a major new release of the operating system (Windows Mobile 7.0). A gallery of screen shots from the 6.1 refresh compiled by Boy Genius shows an emphasis on simplification: the screens are more task-oriented and have less clutter than their immediate predecessor. A new and clearer font adorns the UI, and new features such as zooming, copy and paste in Internet Explorer, and auto-configuring ActiveSync for e-mails are sure to be welcome additions to the platform. In addition, Microsoft is making it easier (and more Windows-like) to switch tasks by adding a standardized task manager to the platform."
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Simple. As per W3C regs, they report different UA strings. iPhone/iPod Touch:
iPod Touch user agent string:
Mozilla/5.0 (iPod; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420.1 (KHTML, like Geckto) Version/3.0 Mobile/3A101a Safari/419.3
iPhone user agent string:
Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1C28 Safari/419.3
S60 user agent string(s):
Mozilla/5.0 (SymbianOS/9.1; U; en-us) AppleWebKit/413 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/413
Mozilla/5.0 (SymbianOS/9.2; U; en-us; Series60/3.1 Nokia3250/1.00) Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1; AppleWebKit/413 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/413
Parsing UAs for nothing more than "Safari" is like parsing them for nothing more than "Mozilla."
Edited 2007-12-18 17:00
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The 'hiptop' is also known as the T-Mobile Sidekick, at least in the USA. Those are the gigantic GBA-sized phones with swivel screens popular with highschoolers these days, since they have a QWERTY keypad for TXTING!!!!!
The OS is by some company called Danger, and the phones are made by Sharp or Motorola.
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2005-07-30
I'd approach the statement that iPhone has overtaken Windows CE in terms of browsing marketshare with skepticism, there is no methodology on how they collected that data and in general it seems to be pretty random.
I mean what the hell is a 'hiptop'? And don't tell me that there are more hiptop users than S60 users. Maybe this just for the US, but no way do 'hiptop' users have a larger presence on the net than S60 users.
People who get S60 phones tend to know what they are doing and use the features of their phones.