International iPhone and BlackBerry Devices
Fresh on the heels of our friends at miblackberry.com, we were curious and decided to look at our BGR community visitors to get an idea of the more interesting devices being used to browse the website. For those not aware of what a browser user agent actually is, it is the standardized identity of your browser to web servers. This helps with the serving of webpages for certain browsers, amongst other uses.
For example, a standard user agent for Internet Explorer 7.0 would show up as:
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3
From a website statistics standpoint, this information can be used for trending analysis to cater content to certain browsers. In recent years, with the rise of mobile web usage from devices such as the iPhone and BlackBerry, it can be used to offer streamlined content tailored to the carrier networks and mobile device browsers (WAP content, for example). With that said, we obviously have a different reason for looking at the data being provided, albeit usually for our own personal amusement and curiosity. Listed below are some of the more interesting user agents that have visited BGR. Check them out, after the jump!
Apple iPhone International – Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone-International; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en-n)
BlackBerry 8100 (OS 4.3.0) – BlackBerry8100/4.3.0 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1
BlackBerry 8120 – BlackBerry8120/4.3.0 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1
BlackBerry 8130 – BlackBerry8130/4.3.0 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1
BlackBerry 8300 (OS 4.3.0) - BlackBerry8300/4.3.0 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1
BlackBerry 8310 (OS 4.2.2) - BlackBerry8310/4.2.2 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1
BlackBerry 8310 (OS 4.3.0) – BlackBerry8310/4.3.0 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1
BlackBerry 8310 (OS 4.3.1) – BlackBerry8310/4.3.1 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1
BlackBerry 8320 (OS 4.2.2) - BlackBerry8320/4.2.2 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1
BlackBerry 8320 (OS 4.3.0) - BlackBerry8320/4.3.0 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1
BlackBerry 8330 – BlackBerry8330/4.2.2 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1
BlackBerry 8820 – BlackBerry8820/4.2.2 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1
As you can see, there has been a nice assortment of visitors in the form of future BlackBerry devices and OS releases, as well as the angelic Euro-centric Jesus Phone. These also confirm the concrete existence of these devices, aside from previous gathered word of mouth from reliable sources.
I don’t think you can consider it concrete evidence of current or future devices since the brower’s user agent can be changed/hacked to be pretty much anything you want. There’s even an extension for Firefox that allows you to change you user agent to something else entirely. So while it’s decent evidence it also it could be someone just looking to mess you up or to start a rumor — especially now after you told them you’re looking at it. Just my $0.02
You are the man…Jibi all you have to do now is figure out when VZW is going to release theirs…
Thanks for some light at the end of the Verizon dark tunnel of waiting….
did the world stop?
This is kind of like tag surfing on the internet for images taken with new phones. I guess that Jim and Steve should ask their employees from surfing the site with their shiny new test phones.
Stop teasing us, why not give us a few pictures or even a view of the web browser that you used.
Where is the Google phone?
So the 8310 is the tmobile curve and the 8320 is the att version? Jibi or BG can u shed any light on this?
Can’t wait til the 8330 comes out. I just got my Curve, and I love it, but who wouldn’t love WiFi and GPS?
8330 is the CDMA world version of the curve.
Curve cannot have wifi and GPS, apparently they cant fit both into the case.
81xx: SureType consumer device; camera-enabled
83xx: QWERTY consumer device; camera-enabled
88xx: QWERTY business device; no camera, GPS-enabled
xx00: GSM device
xx10: GSM device; step-sibling upgrade of xx00 (Pearl and Curve only)
xx20: GSM+Wi-Fi device
xx30: CDMA/EVDO+GSM device
Cool findings. This post is my contribution to the BBcurve numbers.
Neat. Now, for some odd reason, I really want a BB.
Jibi,
See that the BB 8330 showed up with 4.2.2 Profile!!
Will you be giving us more info. Thanks.
CB
This is actually kind of funny given RIM’s notoriety of preventing (or at least discouraging) their employees from using unreleased products publicly. I guess you’ve got a following of people up in the Great White North BG. Though I guess some of those units could be in the hands of carriers evaluating them as well…
funny, Canadians rule the world yet you don’t realize we do it through blackberry technology… we have cracked your defenses, we will implement maple syrup in all your morning pastries…. seriously, they do hide them… I was at lunch the other day and a rim employee had his 91XX out…. he put it away in a hurry when he realized I was intelligent. It wasn’t Mike, he has big hair….