Mobile web enablers

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To offer both desktop and mobile versions of a Drupal site, a mobile-friendly theme is step one, then an additional module or three to detect the user agent and then filter the output or select an alternative theme. This table compares

plus Switchtheme, a generic user agent detection-based theme switcher. This is not a comparison of web-to-sms gateways, location-based frameworks, or contributed mobile themes.

(in order of usage) Mobile Tools Switchtheme Mobile Theme Nokia Mobile Theme Mobile Plugin iDrupal Mobile by Mobify .mobi Loader Japanese Mobile
Requirements browscap idrupal_ui theme Mobify account .mobi theme url_alter
Notes theme w/integ. ua detection has API for to site admins req. .mobi domain?
User agent detection wurfl or browscap browscap browscap Nokia wurfl iPhone/iPod Touch Mobify none DoCoMo, au, Softbank
Domain redirection yes no no no yes no yes yes no
Theme switching yes yes yes no no yes no no no
User-selects mobile or full yes yes no no yes, block no no no no
Select mobile theme yes yes no yes no yes no no
Output tweaks no no no yes yes no no no yes
Drupal 6.x support 6.x-2.3 6.x-1.1 6.x-1.x-dev 6.x-1.3 6.x-2.0 HEAD 6.x-1.15 6.x-1.x-dev 6.x-1.1
Drupal 7.x support 7.x-2.0-unstable1 7.x-1.2 7.x-1.x-dev none none none 7.x-1.0 HEAD none

Related, mostly deprecated projects include iUI, FlexPlat Mobile Devices, Mobile Theme Selection, OSMOBI Client, and Smartphone Theme.