I\'d like to say that I have read and tried many variations of the instructions here:
Well, after some (much more) playing around and the addition of some javascript, I've got the solution - the droid device was not using the resolution I believed it was:
<html>
<head>
<title>orientation and device detection in css3</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" media="all and (max-device-width: 480px) and (orientation:portrait)" href="iphone-portrait.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" media="all and (max-device-width: 480px) and (orientation:landscape)" href="iphone-landscape.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" media="all and (device-width: 768px) and (device-height: 1024px) and (orientation:portrait)" href="ipad-portrait.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" media="all and (device-width: 768px) and (device-height: 1024px) and (orientation:landscape)" href="ipad-landscape.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" media="all and (device-width: 800px) and (device-height: 1184px) and (orientation:portrait)" href="htcdesire-portrait.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" media="all and (device-width: 800px) and (device-height: 390px) and (orientation:landscape)" href="htcdesire-landscape.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" media="all and (min-device-width: 1025px)" href="desktop.css" />
</head>
<body>
<div id="iphonelandscape">iphone landscape</div>
<div id="iphoneportrait">iphone portrait</div>
<div id="ipadlandscape">ipad landscape</div>
<div id="ipadportrait">ipad portrait</div>
<div id="htcdesirelandscape">htc desire landscape</div>
<div id="htcdesireportrait">htc desire portrait</div>
<div id="desktop">desktop</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
function res() { document.write(screen.width + ', ' + screen.height); }
res();
</script>
</body>
</html>