Get the type of the iPhone programmatically?

[hosam]

Hello guys,

Is it possible to know the type of the iPhone( iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS) from the code somehow?

Cheers,

[ftm]

Look at the UIDevice object.

[[UIDevice currentDevice] model];
[[UIDevice currentDevice] name];
[[UIDevice currentDevice] systemName];
[[UIDevice currentDevice] systemVersion];

Lots of good info about the device you are running on can be found through this object.

[hosam]

Originally Posted by ftm

Look at the UIDevice object.

[[UIDevice currentDevice] model];
[[UIDevice currentDevice] name];
[[UIDevice currentDevice] systemName];
[[UIDevice currentDevice] systemVersion];

Lots of good info about the device you are running on can be found through this object.

Looks like there is no way to know the type of the device your running on. The max to know is whether its an iPhone or an iPod touch which is the value returned from the model property

There is no work around this somehow?

Many thanks

[BostonMerlin]

i'm working on a class to give me exactly what you're looking for. not sure when i'll get around to finishing it but i'm basically taking information from UIDevice and then testing individual hardware functions to determine the device... such as if video or compass capabilities exist then it must be a 3gs, if gps exists it must be at least a 3g or 3gs, if camera exists it must be an iphone, 3g or 3gs etc..

Good luck.. i'll post my class when done.. but in the mean time something like this shouldnt take you long to build.. and in the process you'll learn some things along the way.

John

[hosam]

Originally Posted by BostonMerlin

i'm working on a class to give me exactly what you're looking for. not sure when i'll get around to finishing it but i'm basically taking information from UIDevice and then testing individual hardware functions to determine the device... such as if video or compass capabilities exist then it must be a 3gs, if gps exists it must be at least a 3g or 3gs, if camera exists it must be an iphone, 3g or 3gs etc..

Good luck.. i'll post my class when done.. but in the mean time something like this shouldnt take you long to build.. and in the process you'll learn some things along the way.

John

sounds like fun. I guess I will do that, needs some digging though to know what's different between each model.

Cheers

[ipodtouchmaster05]

You can do something like this:

	struct utsname u;
	uname(&u);
	NSString *nameString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%s", u.machine];

nameString will be either iPod1,1 iPod1,2 and iPhone1,1 iPhone1,2 iPhone1,3

You will also need to import this header:

#import <sys/utsname.h>