Does not detect Microsoft Surface as a tablet

[bjankord]

Default User Agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.2; ARM; Trident/6.0; Touch)

User Agent when in desktop mode:
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.2; ARM; Trident/6.0; Touch)

Notice, they are both the same. If you do detect the Microsoft Surface as a tablet, when the user switches their tablet to desktop mode, it will still be recognized as a tablet, when it probably should respect the users decision and recognize it as a desktop.

[sebastien-mignot]

This would be really good to fix, more and more of those tablets are bought (already some clients of us complained).
You can resolve the 2 problems in this issue separatly thought :
First this needs to be recognized as a tablet (isTable() true).
Then the desktop mode can be fixed whenever the device will not send exactly the same UA in desktop mode as in default mode.

[StevenMapes]

You can add the UA to the tablet list if you want it to come up as a tablet. I've done that with some Android devices which were not matching.

The problem bjankord has reported though is that the UA does not change. bjankord, do you have a copy of all of the headers sent by the device in different modes? Is there any difference between them? If there is not then this would require a client-side solution, assuming the viewport or some other client detectable setting is changed.

[httpete]

I am not a regex god, but I got this by adding this to the $tabletDevices.

    'SurfaceTablet'     => 'Mozilla.*MSIE.*; Touch',

[httpete]

improvement here, discerns a tablet from windows 8 phone , which works ok. Phone comes up with Windows 8 Phone, Tablet does Windows NT

    'SurfaceTablet'     => 'Mozilla.*MSIE.*; Windows NT.*; Touch',

[serbanghita]

@httpete I have to test this against https://github.com/serbanghita/Mobile-Detect/blob/master/manual_tests/mobilePerVendor_useragents.inc.php

Do you have any tablet with Windows Mobile? Thanks a lot!

[httpete]

Hi Serban,

Yes I have an windows Surfact RT tablet, I posted to the wiki the regex I am using that I patch in and it does work, distinguishing between windows mobile phone and rt tablet correctly.

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Pete Smith

On Mar 7, 2013, at 8:41 AM, Serban Ghita <[email protected]mailto:[email protected]> wrote:

@httpetehttps://github.com/httpete I have to test this against https://github.com/serbanghita/Mobile-Detect/blob/master/manual_tests/mobilePerVendor_useragents.inc.php

Do you have any tablet with Windows Mobile? Thanks a lot!

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[serbanghita]

@httpete Great, if this is critical for you I'll test the regex a.s.a.p. To be sure I need to research the differences between HTTP headers of phones running http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Phone_8 and tablets running http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_RT

[lespinosa]

Hi Serbanghita!

We have some update for this issue?

Thanks!

[cripsta187]

I would also appreciate an update because more and more users have a surface tablet.
Any hot fix solution to this problem?

Regards, Crip

[httpete]

To me, we need to break up the devices by screen res. Mobile and tablet are really arbitrary groupings. I think most break it up by screen size. I would love this API to say screenSize Less than 768 wide

-- Sent from my HP TouchPad

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On Mar 20, 2013 4:46 PM, cripsta187 [email protected] wrote:

I would also appreciate an update because more and more users have a surface tablet.
Any hot fix solution to this problem?

Regards, Crip

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[serbanghita]

@httpete working on that API.

Everybody check isSurfaceTablet(). Please also test: isWindowsMobileOS and isWindowsPhoneOS - I need confirmations for these until I finish the automated tests.

[lespinosa]

Thanks! Serban

[seancodev]

Hi all,

Change Windows Phone OS to:
'WindowsPhoneOS' => 'Windows Phone 8.0|Windows Phone OS|XBLWP7|ZuneWP7|Windows Phone 8.0; Trident/.; IEMobile/.; ARM;', (note /.* after IEMobile and Trident)

Surface Tablet to:
'SurfaceTablet' => 'Windows NT 6.[23]; ARM;.(Tablet|ARMBJS)|Mozilla.MSIE.; Windows NT.; Touch|Windows NT 6.[23]; ARM; Trident/.*; Touch;',

Good to go.

Cheers,
Sean