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From: Sak Wathanasin on 16 Jul 2010 06:14 On 16 July, 11:09, j...(a)magrathea.plus.com (Jim) wrote: > The word on the web is "no, but it wasn't intended to". It was more to > stop it misrepresenting the signal strength indicator bars. If you were > getting dropped calls before, this won't have cured it. You can just see the "I used to get 5 bars, and now I only have 2" grumbles coming, can't you?
From: Jim on 16 Jul 2010 06:42 Sak Wathanasin <sw(a)nan.co.uk> wrote: > On 16 July, 11:09, j...(a)magrathea.plus.com (Jim) wrote: > > > The word on the web is "no, but it wasn't intended to". It was more to > > stop it misrepresenting the signal strength indicator bars. If you were > > getting dropped calls before, this won't have cured it. > > You can just see the "I used to get 5 bars, and now I only have 2" > grumbles coming, can't you? And the best thing is, it's digital - signal bar indicators don't mean anything important. All the phones need to say is "You have service" or "No service". Jim -- "Microsoft admitted its Vista operating system was a 'less good product' in what IT experts have described as the most ambitious understatement since the captain of the Titanic reported some slightly damp tablecloths." http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/
From: Woody on 16 Jul 2010 07:13 On 16/07/2010 11:42, Jim wrote: > Sak Wathanasin<sw(a)nan.co.uk> wrote: > >> On 16 July, 11:09, j...(a)magrathea.plus.com (Jim) wrote: >> >>> The word on the web is "no, but it wasn't intended to". It was more to >>> stop it misrepresenting the signal strength indicator bars. If you were >>> getting dropped calls before, this won't have cured it. >> >> You can just see the "I used to get 5 bars, and now I only have 2" >> grumbles coming, can't you? > > And the best thing is, it's digital - signal bar indicators don't mean > anything important. All the phones need to say is "You have service" or > "No service". I don't know, the bars are a handy indication of 'you are going to lose service service' and 'no problem'. So I would say it needs "Service", "Poor service", "No service" -- Woody
From: Pd on 16 Jul 2010 07:17 Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > Sak Wathanasin <sw(a)nan.co.uk> wrote: > > > On 16 July, 11:09, j...(a)magrathea.plus.com (Jim) wrote: > > > > > The word on the web is "no, but it wasn't intended to". It was more to > > > stop it misrepresenting the signal strength indicator bars. If you were > > > getting dropped calls before, this won't have cured it. > > > > You can just see the "I used to get 5 bars, and now I only have 2" > > grumbles coming, can't you? > > And the best thing is, it's digital - signal bar indicators don't mean > anything important. All the phones need to say is "You have service" or > "No service". Is that true? Quite often my wife calls me, and her voice is very garbled, stop/start and sometimes vanishes. That has to be "poor signal" surely? And I'm sure she's not drunk. -- Pd
From: Jochem Huhmann on 16 Jul 2010 07:48
jim(a)magrathea.plus.com (Jim) writes: > And the best thing is, it's digital - signal bar indicators don't mean > anything important. All the phones need to say is "You have service" or > "No service". Well, a third state in between saying "the signal is just good enough to have service but be very careful how you hold the thing now" would be very useful, too. An indicator just showing green, yellow or red would work nicely ;-) Jochem -- "A designer knows he has arrived at perfection not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery |