Internet Explorer Mobile - User Agent

User Agent

Internet Explorer Mobile 9 on Windows Phone can be set to either "mobile view" or "desktop view". When in mobile view, the UA string of Windows Phone is given by:

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows Phone OS 7.5; Trident/5.0; IEMobile/9.0; ; )

The UA string in desktop view looks almost similar to that of the Internet Explorer 9 running on Windows 7 with some additional identifiers.

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/5.0; XBLWP7; ZuneWP7)

Google and its sites are able to bypass the desktop mode setting on Windows Phone devices and redirect the user to either a mobile site or a less functional website. A browser incompatibility message may also even be displayed.

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