how do I detect whether I have iPhone 2G,3G,3GS

Question

I want to detect my current device name. How do I detect it through iPhone SDK? Also how do I detect if the iPhone doesn't have a SIM inserted?

Answer 1

Whether you are on an iPhone or a iPod Touch:

UIDevice *device = [UIDevice currentDevice];
NSString *systemName = [device systemName];

To detect the version of the OS:

UIDevice *device = [UIDevice currentDevice];
NSString *systemVersion = [device systemVersion];

To detect a specific model, you would need to test for some capability that only that model has, so to detect an iPhone 3GS, check for a video capability on the camera:

#define SOURCETYPE UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypeCamera

// does the device have a camera?
if ([UIImagePickerController isSourceTypeAvailable:SOURCETYPE]) {
  // if so, does that camera support video?
  NSArray *mediaTypes = [UIImagePickerController availableMediaTypesForSourceType:SOURCETYPE];
  bool isA3GS = [mediaTypes containsObject:kUTTypeMovie];
}

Answer 2

From the UIDevice.h file:

[[UIDevice currentDevice] name]              // e.g. "My iPhone"
[[UIDevice currentDevice] model]             // e.g. @"iPhone", @"iPod Touch"
[[UIDevice currentDevice] localizedModel]    // localized version of model
[[UIDevice currentDevice] systemName]        // e.g. @"iPhone OS"
[[UIDevice currentDevice] systemVersion]     // e.g. @"2.0"
[[UIDevice currentDevice] uniqueIdentifier]  // a string unique to each device based on various hardware info.

Answer 3

I wrote a short blog post that might be of help:

Determine Device Type - 3G or 3GS / iPod First or Second Generation

Answer 4

How would I LOOP through currentDevice to find ALL the values available there. (So it would list all values... for years to come.)

Answer 5

Please, how do I run this command, am a novice and dont know how to. Thanks for helping.

Answer 6

Here is a class written by Erica Sadun that provides extensive capabilities for this:

http://github.com/erica/uidevice-extension/blob/master/UIDevice-Hardware.m

Check out the rest of the repo - there are a few more classes that would prove to be really useful for fine-grained device querying.