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Android vs. iPhone 4 Signal Strength Bars Comparison

Posted by timothy on from the under-the-hood dept.

thisisauniqueid writes "In light of the clamor over the iPhone 4 Grip of Death, AnandTech recently reverse-engineered the phone's signal-strength-to-bars mapping. Because Android is open source, we can determine the corresponding mapping for Android in combination with the 3GPP spec referenced in the source, allowing the signal-strength-to-bars mapping for both Android and the iPhone 4 to be plotted on the same axes. This shows that the iPhone 4 consistently reports a higher percentage signal strength (as defined by the fraction of bars lit) than Android GSM devices at the same signal strength."

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  1. gay bars by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

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  2. Re:Summarising... by Low+Ranked+Craig · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You didn't try very hard then. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=nexus+one+antenna+issues

    I smell an Apple hater who likes to avoid unpleasant facts

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