The iPhone launched with this user agent:

Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1A543a Safari/419.3

Here’s a tip to find out the user agent for any browser or device that you’re on (e.g. a kiosk at a mall, a different cell phone, or something else that you tinker with):
- Go to Google
- Search for the word phpinfo. If you visit a webserver running the phpinfo() command, the resulting web page will tell you info about the web server, but it will also tell you about your browser’s user agent.
- Look for a page that actually runs phpinfo() instead of documentation about phpinfo(). Usually there’s a few such pages in the top 10. If you’re having trouble finding a phpinfo() page, you can do a more specific search for the words phpinfo http_user_agent.
- Click on the phpinfo() page and near the bottom of the page look for a string called HTTP_USER_AGENT. You’ll see something like this:

Sorry that the picture runs in the right-hand column; I didn’t want to clip or resize the image. I took this picture running Firefox on my Ubuntu Desktop, so that’s the user agent you see. But this tip works with iPhones and almost any other browser that can search on Google.


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