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Force Sharepoint to open full site when viewed from a mobile device

What sounded really cool when first launch may turn to be not so great in Sharepoint : opening a page with a mobile / smartphone.

By default Sharepoint 2010 detects that you are using a mobile device and will redirect your page to the mobile version of that same page (/_layouts/mobile/xxx.aspx or old /_layouts/m/xxx in 2007).

to force your site to open the full (desktop) version, follow this blog post and either edit one of the 3 settings or all did the trick for me: 

http://blogs.pointbridge.com/Blogs/broweleit_seth/Pages/Post.aspx?_ID=14#EntryTabs

Make a Sharepoint publishing site NOT convert to mobile format

It has been like months that I wanted to look at this common issue : when you open a Sharepoint publishing site from a mobile device, it recognises the device is mobile and forces to open the mobile version, but prompts fo ra login, not great for anonymous users !

thanks to Glyn Clough's I now have an explanation of the why (cf. feature in his reverse engineering tests) and thanks to Randy Drisgill I manage to force mobile users to open the full desktop site, which looks much better on an iPhone anyway.