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docs/KNOWN_LIMITATIONS.md

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**Known limitations**
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* User-Agent and HTTP headers sniffing is overall a non reliable method of detecting a mobile device.
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* Mobile Detect script was designed to detect `mobile` devices. Implicitly other devices are considered to be `desktop`.
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* User-Agent and HTTP headers sniffing is a non reliable method of detecting a mobile device.
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* If the mobile browser is set on `Desktop mode`, the Mobile Detect script has no way of knowing that the device is `mobile`.
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* There are hundreds of devices launched every month, we cannot keep a 100% up to date detection rate.
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* Some touchscreen devices (eg. Microsoft Surface) are tough to detect as mobile since they can be used in a laptop mode.
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* Detecting the device brand (eg. Apple, Samsung, HTC) is not 100% reliable.
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* We don't monitor the quality of the 3rd party tools based on Mobile Detect script. We cannot guarantee that they are using
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the class properly or if they provide the latest version.
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* We don't monitor the quality of the 3rd party tools based on Mobile Detect script.
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We cannot guarantee that they are using the class properly or if they provide the latest version.
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* Version `2.x` is made to be PHP 5.3 compatible because of the backward compatibility changes of PHP.
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* There are hundreds of devices launched every month, we cannot keep a 100% up to date detection rate.

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