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I need to create groups of all mobile devices for each OS. I want to use the WURFL IDs, and I'm aware that WURFL sometimes specify the device's OS using "device_os=". Unfortunately many mobile devices are missing this property so I can't rely on it. Is there another way?

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Most, if not all, modern mobile devices in WURFL have the device_os property set, but they inherit it from their parent devices, so you would either need to use the WURFL API to lookup all devices and check their device_os, or you will need to parse to XML file directly, combining the capabilities of each device with the capabilities of their parents, specified in the fall_back XML attribute. For devices with a blank device_os, the OS is totally proprietary and perhaps completely indistinguishable from the higher-level software on the device.

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