User agent windows phone 8.1

Question

I followed the following link to get the user agent on my windows phone 8.1 device. http://dotnet.dzone.com/articles/how-get-windows-phone-user-0

The problem is that the user agent that i get back does not list windows phone 8.1 and instead returns "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows Phone 8.0; Trident/6.0; IEMobile/10.0; ARM; Touch; NOKIA; Lumia 630)"

This seems to be wrong. I also tried wwww.whatsmyuseragent.com that returns "Mozilla/5.0 ( Windows Phone 8.1; Trident/6.0; IEMobile/10.0; ARM; Touch; NOKIA; Lumia 630)"

Why am i not getting it correctly? Has anyone else faced this issue. Kindly help .

Answer 1

Like whitehawk, I had problems to detect mobiles in our portal. For WP with IE, set to mobile over the Internet, I also received the "meaningful" UAS:

Mozilla/5.0 (Mobile; Windows Phone 8.1; Android 4.0; ARM; Trident/7.0; Touch; rv:11.0; IEMobile/11.0; NOKIA; Lumia 930) like iPhone OS 7_0_3 Mac OS X AppleWebKit/537 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile Safari/537

Whereby, if IE mobile is set to "Desktop" or the portal is called over the Intranet, I receive:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; ARM; Trident/7.0; Touch; rv:11.0; WPDesktop; Lumia 930) like Gecko

So.. the effect was, that our portal has showed the mobile page to iOS, instead of the mobile page to WP.
The workaround was to query the UAS for "Windows Phone" before the query for iPhone.
It seems as MS tries, to be detected as mobile device on this way (if a page only queries for iOS and Android-devices), what is not nice.

Answer 2

This one is real and gave me difficulty:

Mozilla/5.0 (Mobile; Windows Phone 8.1; Android 4.0; ARM; Trident/7.0; Touch; rv:11.0; IEMobile/11.0; Microsoft; Virtual) like iPhone OS 7_0_3 Mac OS X AppleWebKit/537 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile Safari/537