Thread: Complainers on android forums
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Kingsley is offline Kingsley
2010-06-07 , 23:25
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#34
Originally Posted by TomJ View Post
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I'm going to feel like I'm shooting a puppy for posting this, but your handset doesn't have enough power to send a recognisable signal to outer space. You were receiving a number of signals from medium earth orbit, which your handset correlated to calculate your position. It then downloaded the relevant maps for said position from the 'net. All of which is still amazing enough to justify:
I never understand why so many people think mobilel phone signals go to space.. do they not know what all those towers are for?

I'm pretty sure you could pick up the signal with a big enough aerial, after all we can still pick up voyager, wich iirc we recive the same flux as a mobile on the moon..