For a visual alternative in Lion, the steps are:

• click the apple in the top left corner
• choose About This Mac
• click on the More Info… button to access the System Information application
• click on the System Report… button
• under Hardware group, there’s the USB option that we were searching for

I needed this information to access my HTC phone with Android that I had connected via USB.

Mostly from the user agent.

—> http://detectmobilebrowsers.mobi/

—>>> ugly code, good docs

—> http://www.deviceatlas.com/

—>>> $99 / year for production

—> http://wurfl.sourceforge.net/

—>>> open-source list of mobile devices for easy detection

Don’t redirect to homepage, it’s not what the user wants.

Beware: the screen sizes vary heavily, don’t make assumptions about this.

Small demo code to show how easy it is in ZF-enabled apps to use a different layout, css and set of views.

Since ZF 1.11 one can use Zend_Http_UserAgent for easier browser detection + more info device-specific.

UI Considerations

- hover magic is unexpected for user

- HTML5, yay!

Other

jQTouch

API improvements & Security

- use versioning in the URL of the API to separate users who did not upgrade their apps

- use signed URLs ?x=1&signature=hash( secret, time limit, params)

- using https is difficult for the iPhone apps

Deploy as native apps

www.ipfaces.org : html on the server, supports php

www.phonegap.com

- not as good as the native apps

Don’t forget to have fun!