Alternative way to detect/fingerprint phone make and model?

As seen in this question, there is a problem with using OS supplied APIs to detect make and model of a particular handset. (In that case, an HTC Smart.)

Is there some other way to indirectly determine the make an开发者_C百科d model? For instance, can one look for class ids only present on that particular phone, in combination with OS version perhaps, to detect make and model? I am hoping to avoid conditional compiling as much as possible.

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It would seem that only the HTC Smart is affected, all other phones seem to report version etc correctly.