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2009-11-11 , 16:15
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Originally Posted by jaark View Post
Unfortunately, the signal indicators on phones are generally pretty deceptive. They only show signal strength and do not give an indication of snr (signal to noise ratio). It is perfectly possible to have a strong, but unusable signal and your phone won't tell you.
Now the question is, can we determine the level of noise and useable signal? If so then maybe this is a widget waiting to happen? Suppose the other potential measure is that of throughput or number of cell requests issued by the phone - is this information available to the software stack?

Might be nice to be able to do this for each operator visibile - be interesting to see if another provider gives a better signal in locations relevant to the individual too.
Last edited by Fargus; 2009-11-11 at 16:16. Reason: Additional