Hello Uday,

Since you mentioned User Agent strings, I'm going to focus on the web. In this
context the
server typically wants to adapt to the varoius mobiles connecting to it. The UA
string is
defined by the browser on the handset. Have you heard of WURFL (http://
wurfl.sourceforge.net)? It is an open source project which collects data
published by the
handset manufacturers. WURFL is good for generic things that have been around
for a long
time(ie, ringtones, xhtml, etc). If you want to do a transcoder to hit a lot of
phones, this
might be a good starting point for our server.

Is this along the lines you of your problem space? If not, would you refine the
problem
definition?

-jk

--- In SVS_SIG@yahoogroups.com, "Uday Subbarayan" <kumarudaya@...> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
> Inside a mobile device, how do i get the device information
> programmatically? For example, the http browser sends out the
> information in the UA agents header. How does the browser gets this
> information? Is it in the OS?
>
> Thanks,
> -Uday.
>