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I'm currently using LiteDeviceResolver to detect the device used by a customer on a website developed in Java.

It works well to differenciate mobile from desktop.

However, now I need to detect phablet. Currently phablet are considered as desktop device instead of mobile.

I can't find out a list of know user-agent for phablet.

I'm looking for any advice to detect efficiently all known phablet. Either using code or UA list, from client side or server side.

alain.janinm
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  • Advice: Don't do that and use responsive design. Further, there's no clear difference between phones, phablets, and tablets, so UA sniffing is unlikely to be helpful. – chrylis -cautiouslyoptimistic- Jul 30 '15 at 17:15
  • @chrylis Thanks but the website has different functionalities for mobile and phablet users. It's not just a matter of design. Also I'm looking toward all possible solutions, from client or server side, using UA or not. Currently I guess the only solution I have is to check in js the screen size and deduce from that the device. – alain.janinm Jul 31 '15 at 06:26
  • I think the big question I have (and this might be naïveté) but is there a firm, quantitative definition of a "phablet?" I always assumed it was a "know it when you see it" kind of thing. – Chris Thompson Jul 31 '15 at 15:54
  • "Mobile" is a phone. "Phablet" is a phone with a bit bigger screen. "Different functionalities" for these two is... questionable. – chrylis -cautiouslyoptimistic- Jul 31 '15 at 23:05

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