Detect phone vs tablet

Question

Is there a way to detect if the user is using a tablet or a phone? As an example a person surfing the web using a tablet (any android tablet with version 3+ and iPad) they

Answer 1

You can use something like Device Atlas to detect these features off the User Agent. The offer an API that you can host yourself, and they also offer a cloud service. Both are premium (paid-for)

Alternatively you can use something like Wurfl which, in my experience, is less accurate.