Is this still working for people? I am getting a "Bad Request" error message from Google (any google page I try) after I try these settings.

Thanks

EDIT: Working now. Not sure what I did differently, but I started from scratch and tried again and it work. Thanks for figuring this out.

I'm getting Bad Request returned now from all websites. Anybody know what I may have done wrong? After selecting "Set Preference" do you just close the about:config window? (That's what I did. I'm a newbie.) I've restarted the browser and restarted my N800 and it doesn't help. I went back to the original settings (leaving Value blank) and that worked. And tried again to make the changes to make my N800 appear as an iTouch, and again all I get is Bad Request.

GeraldKo-- I'm afraid I don't know what I did that made it work. Check the spacing of the entry in the about:config textbox, I think I may have had to do something with that. If you cut and pasted it from someplace, it's worth double checking.
Sorry I can't be of more help; it wasn't working and then it did.

EDIT: I am using the iPhone user agent, not the iPod Touch one. Maybe that is the difference?

Got the iPhone impostor-ship working on my N800. I used a bookmark to change the config preference. It can be found on another thread here: http://tinyurl.com/yog6s8 This is DEFINITELY a better way to see GMail on the N800!

(Slip -- thanks for getting back to me, very much. You might want to add the config settings as bookmarks -- it's much faster for going back and forth.)

I feel like a black guy passing as a white with this iPhone preference-change. The world makes it tough for minorities!

Yeah no kidding.

For those of you who don't want to have to hide your identities, here are a few popular sites in their "mobile" versions which won't require you do change your useragent string.

Google Search - http://www.google.com/m#search
Gmail - http://mail.google.com/mail/x/
Google Docs - http://docs.google.com/m?source=m2
Digg - http://digg.com/iphone
eBay - http://m.ebay.com/
Amazon - http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/h.html
MySpace - http://mobile.myspace.com/
Facebook - http://iphone.facebook.com/
Slashdot - http://slashdot.org/palm
Wikipedia - http://wapedia.mobi/en/
Pricegrabber - http://www.atpgw.com/
Yahoo weather - http://us.m.yahoo.com/p/weather?tsrc=rawweather
TV guide - http://wireless.tvguide.com/
Infospace - http://www.infospace.com/info.avant/
Geek.com - http://www.geek.com/portable/geek_mobile.php
Moviepone - http://palm.moviefone.com/
News.com - http://m.news.com/
Gomovies - http://ww2.gomoviesapp.com:8080/main.php
Weather.com - http://www.weather.com/iphone (requires useragent change)
Weather underground - http://i.wund.com/
Bank of America - https://www.bankofamerica.com/mobile/
Food network - http://iphone.foodnetwork.com/#_recipes
Twitter - http://m.twitter.com/login
Hahlo - http://hahlo.com/
Realtor - http://iphone.realtor.com/ (requires useragent change)
CBS News - http://www.cbsnews.com/iphone/
ESPN - http://sports.espn.go.com/espnradio/podcast/iphone/
Fox News - http://iphone.foxnews.com/
LA Times - http://mobile.latimes.com/
Remember the Milk - http://m.rememberthemilk.com/
iZoho - http://mini.zoho.com/iZoho.jsp
Box.net - http://i.box.net/


BBC:
Text only - http://news.bbc.co.uk/text_only.stm
PDA - http://www.bbc.co.uk/mobile/pda/
Mobile - http://www.bbc.co.uk/mobile/web/index.shtml
High contrast(?) - http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/education/betsie/parser.pl

Enjoy!

A1 thanks very much!!
I frankly loved the mobile versions of the earlier pda days. So simplified and cleaned of the 'junk'.
The "Top Ten" link is very helpful.

Do I understand from Cybercat's post that in fact 'very few' of the sites require the preference change?

Yeah, only two of the sites from my post (the ones noted that need "useragent change") require the useragent adjustment with about:config. Otherwise they seem to work fine regardless of browser.

Thanks for the list of mobile site compilation CyberCat. Obviates the need to change userAgent values and revert back etc.

Just created a Mobile sites folder with the mobile versions of these sites I use.

To add to that- one of the ones I use

http://m.netvibes.com/
us.m.yahoo.com/
- for Yahoo Mail, addressbook, News, Flicker and all such Yahoo properties

I wished all sites would allow (if they have a optimized version) a m.site.com instead of www for mobile... would be so handy.

thank you for the links!