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Originally Posted by MickMcGeough
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It’s almost like its not that the iPhone 4 has issues, but more like it operates correctly over a much wider range of signal strengths, and as a result, the range of values displayed by the 5 bar signal display is much wider, so it climbs and drops over a far wider range than people are used to seeing.
It’s well known that the “5 bar display” is doctored on many phones, and also that Apple uses that display to report actual DB’s, as opposed to “relative” signal strength - I remember even on the iPhone 1 this was an area of concern/confusion for people.
Nobody is talking about sensitivity in any of this either - it could very well be that the iPhone 4 works just fine down to 1 bar, so they aren’t afraid to show the lower signal strength because they know the phone will continue to handle calls.