When I go to most major news sites (such as nytimes.com and news.bbc.co.uk) the browser automatically loads the mobile version of these pages. Granted it loads in like 2 seconds over 3G but I'd really like to see the regular version. Normally there's a little link at the bottom of mobile versions that say "take me to the real version" or something, but I'm actually finding this missing on many of my favorite sites (NYT and BBC included).
Is it possible to set the browser to only go to regular versions of the pages?
What browser do you use? I use opera and never get this problem
The Nokia browser (Web) provides the user agent (V11):
Mozilla/5.0 (SymbianOS/9.2; U; Series60/3.1 NokiaN95/11.0.026; Profile MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1) AppleWebKit/413 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/413
These sites are no doubt recognising the SymbianOS, Series60 or Nokia parts and serving up the mobile version. I'm not aware of a way to change the user agent to avoid this though.
Opera Mini 3 identifies itself as:
Opera/8.01 (J2ME/MIDP; Opera Mini/3.0.6306/1528; en; U; ssr)
It's lacking any mention of SymbianOS, Series60 or Nokia, so it gets the desktop site. Of course, sites could sniff for 'Opera Mini' and give you the mobile version - but I guess they don't.
rainedallnight wrote:...but I'm actually finding this missing on many of my favorite sites (NYT and BBC included).
The BBC site definitely supports full resolution.
I think it is a link at the bottom of the page called "Preferences", and you get the choice of about four options, one of which is the "proper" site.