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Nokia N95 User Agent String - Opera For Mobile

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Here is the User Agent String for Opera For Mobile on the Nokia N95/Series 60:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Symbian OS; Series 60/11.0.026; 9730) Opera 8.65 [en]

Notice how it merely identifies itself as Opera 8.65 and not Opera For Mobile; Opera 8.65 is what your should look for in your hit-tracking if you want to spot Opera For Mobile hits. Google Analytics and several other applications will lump Opera For Mobile hits in with the results for Opera in general.

Notice how it also tries to cloak itself as Internet Explorer 6 (’MSIE 6.0′), this is probably another example a mobile device trying to evade browser-sniffers to ensure they are served up regular webpages rather than ones streamlined for mobile.

Opera For Mobile has a brilliant abilty to render normal pages on a small screen, superior in my opinion to the Nokia N95’s native browser. The impact of this would be diminished if it were served with streamlined pages when the user wanted/expected regular pages.

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