Android vs. iPhone 4 Signal Strength Bars Comparison

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."

Comments

Re:Fine

[Lars T.]

Now all they have to do is reverse engenier the actual correspondence between bars displayed and signal strength on each and every Android phone model just to be sure nobody changed the actual deployed code.

Why would you have to do that?

(you fucking idiot)

Nice of you to sign your post, AC. And how fitting your name is.