Determine 3G Capabilities on iOS Device

Question

I've been searching the internet for a while now, but I can't seem to find anyway of determining if the device an app is running on supports 3G data.

I don't want to be able to see if it is currently active which is what the Reachability class does, I would like to know if the device has 3G hardware.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Have you considered detecting the type of the device ?

If it's an iPhone 3G/3GS/4/4S or an iPad with 3G, it has 3G. Otherwise no.

Maybe this library can help you : UIDevice Extension

I'm not sure if it can tell you wether the iPad is 3G or not, but for iPhones/iPodTouchs it may work well...

EDIT :

You can use this code to get the device type :

[UIDevice currentDevice] platformType]

Or this to directly get a NSString :

[[UIDevice currentDevice] platformString]