Detect tablet and smartphone

Question

I would like to know, what is the best way to detect tablets and smartphone at the moment?

Plugin, user agent detection, touch screen detection etc.

Thanks

Answer 1

Look at the top rated answer at this url:

What is the best way to detect a mobile device in jQuery?

Current methods from that thread:

var isMobile = navigator.userAgent.match(/(iPhone|iPod|iPad|Android|BlackBerry)/); 

Jquery:

$.browser.device = (/android|webos|iphone|ipad|ipod|blackberry|iemobile|opera mini/i.test(navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase()));