Will we get device.vendor with Reduced User Agent?

[dattanchu]

Currently on Chrome with Reduced User Agent, even withClientHints() result, we are not getting the device.vendor field. For example, a Samsung phone would return with the model number SM-xxxx, but without the vendor field set to "SAMSUNG".

Do we plan to make this available for 2.0 stable?

[faisalman]

Currently client hints spec doesn't include vendor information, but the spec is not final, thus we still have no plan to accomodate the mentioned feature.

// I haven't try this actually, but if we unreduce the user-agent first 
// and then parse as usual, maybe it will give different result?

import { UAParser } from 'ua-parser-js';
import { unfreezeUA } from 'ua-unfreeze-js';

unfreezeUA().then(newUA => console.log(UAParser(newUA).device.vendor));

[faisalman]

In the meantime you can also use getDeviceVendor():

const { device } = await UAParser().withClientHints();
if (!device.vendor && device.model) {
    device.vendor = getDeviceVendor(device.model);
}