🆕 blog! “Can this device make a phone call?”

I want to detect if a web browser is running on a device which is capable of placing a telephone call. Is that possible? I'm going to go with a cautious "no - not quite". Although there are several proxies which get you part of the way there. Here's a link to a telephone number […]

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@Edent

Hmm surely if the browser is running on a device such as Android or IOS then as a browser (well website code) can detect the OS then it may be possible to detect a OS designed for mobile and do this that way.

I am just guessing so maybe someone else can add to this.

@zleap
Thanks. I'm curious, did you read my blog post?
I'm trying some new ways to make the link more obvious and it is useful to have feedback.

@Edent

Sorry i didn't just had a look, still not sure as I you said UA sniffing was discredited, which is a good point given you have android on phones

Would be interested generally about this.

Just thought of an idea Media Queries in CSS can detect screen size,

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