All. The. Freakin. Over. It's the standard american consumer measurement of signal. "This phone is better than that phone, this one gets five bars in that spot, and the other only gets four"
As a semi-serious aside, it would be -awesome- if my phone -would- display dBm and error rates. My DSL router does. My satellite boxes do. My ethernet switches have plenty of error count options. Why the heck can't my phone do anything other than give me a nearly useless sloping graph.
Useful to know! I'll check out my mom's blackberry later. I wonder if there's some way to talk my Treo into giving me such information; I mean, the whole -point- of a phone with an open development interface is that such things -should- be possible! :)
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(And I prefer mm Hg anyhow.)
Or Pascals.
ok, i'll get my coat.
I'd -101dbm and a usable signal on my blackberry 8 miles from a cell site, near Telluride Colorado.
I was seriously impressed by that.