How do you detect iPhone v. iPhone 3G using Obj C

Question

There is a model property of the device, but it doesn't distinguish between iPhone and iPhone 3G. Is there a better way?

Answer 1

See here:

ars / uidevice-extension

Answer 2

The specifically interesting parts of the project Stephan posted are these:

The string values you're likely to see:

/*
 Platforms
 iPhone1,1 -> iPhone 1G
 iPhone1,2 -> iPhone 3G 
 iPod1,1   -> iPod touch 1G 
 iPod2,1   -> iPod touch 2G 
*/

How to get one of those values:

  size_t size;
    sysctlbyname("hw.machine", NULL, &size, NULL, 0);
    char *machine = malloc(size);
  sysctlbyname("hw.machine", machine, &size, NULL, 0);
  NSString *platform = [NSString stringWithCString:machine encoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding];
  free(machine);

You can then check the beginning of platform for @"iPhone" or @"iPod" and tell if you have a device with GPS or not. I wouldn't recommend matching the whole string for what you want, because the next time a device comes out (such as this summer, most likely) you won't be able to match it without changing code.

Also, if you haven't seen them, Erica Sadun (the project author) has some excellent articles on iPhone dev at ArsTechnica.com and at least one book about it.

Answer 3

It seems like you're maybe trying to solve the wrong problem here. You really don't want to know whether you're running on an iPhone 3G or an original iPhone. If you write code that tries to infer whether the device has GPS hardware based on its model, you're going to have to change it when a new model comes out (like an iPod Touch with GPS, or a new netbook product that has GPS, or an iPhone 3G Nano that doesn't have GPS).

It's not clear from your description why you think you need to care whether the device has GPS hardware, or not. You can get location information from CoreLocation, and it includes an accuracy measurement. Just use that, and if the accuracy isn't high enough, inform the user.

Answer 4

actually they can use the code just to detect a model that doesn't and assume all other models have it

that way they don't have to change the code in the future unless they come out with an iPhone that doesn't have a GPS again...

also--- in response to Oregon Ghost--- there are many features (bluetooth is another I can think of off the top of my head) that the SDK provides no way of detecting....

Answer 5

Hi, this code works great!

But with Apple's new static analysis tool, will this pass the app store review process though?

Has anyone figure out a way to do it using only public apis? Right now we can only distinguish iPhone 3Gs by testing for the availability of a video camera, but there is there a way to differentiate between iPhone 2G and iPhone 3G.

Thanks!