HTC responds to ‘Antennagate’ with numbers – very (important) tiny numbers
While HTC didn’t quite come out swinging like RIM did after Apple’s Friday press conference, spokesman Eric Lin wasn’t afraid to let Pocket-Lint in on some hard numbers of their own. If you recall, Apple CEO and co-founder Steve Jobs remarked that only 0.55 percent of users have called in to complain about signal issues with the new iPhone 4. He also proceeded to show some pretty pictures of other cell phones signal bar display while being held ‘the wrong way’ — including our own Droid Eris. Now, 0.55 percent is an awfully low number, but it looks huge when compared to the numbers Mr. Lin gives us — "Approximately .016% of customers." I’m no math wizard, but that’s less. A lot less. About 35 times less. ( I asked a math wizard.)
This begs us to address the point of Friday’s spectacle press conference. Luckily, our pal Rene over at TiPb went through the trouble of rounding up a slew of SPE writer and editor’s take on the whole thing, which turns out is a really good read. Do yourself a favor and check it out.
Comments are open, feel free to discuss percentages versus sales, your experiences with the Eris’ signal, and what you think of the way our poor lil’ Eris got dragged through the mud. Just try to keep the flames to a minimum please 
[Pocket-lint]
Posted originally at Android Central
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‘Antennas’ app locates your carrier’s towers, puts ‘bars’ to shame
If you have been keeping up with news in the tech world lately, you might have noticed something of a debate concerning signal strength. Antennas looks to do away with the simplistic "bars" measure of signal strength by letting Android users know what towers they are connected to, and roughly where they are. The app uses your phone’s GPS along with data collected from the antenna and puts both up against Google’s antenna database.
CDMA users (That’s you, Verizon and Sprint) will have less succes, as the Android OS prevents connecting to more than one tower. This causes only one tower, the strongest, to be shown and requires Android 2.x to work. Everyone else in the world on GSM will have the best results by turning 3G off and allowing the app to run on EDGE/2G. [Panix via LifeHacker | AppBrain]
Posted originally at Android Central
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‘Antennas’ app locates your carrier’s towers, puts ‘bars’ to shame
If you have been keeping up with news in the tech world lately, you might have noticed something of a debate concerning signal strength. Antennas looks to do away with the simplistic "bars" measure of signal strength by letting Android users know what towers they are connected to, and roughly where they are. The app uses your phone’s GPS along with data collected from the antenna and puts both up against Google’s antenna database.
CDMA users (That’s you, Verizon and Sprint) will have less succes, as the Android OS prevents connecting to more than one tower. This causes only one tower, the strongest, to be shown and requires Android 2.x to work. Everyone else in the world on GSM will have the best results by turning 3G off and allowing the app to run on EDGE/2G. [Panix via LifeHacker | AppBrain]
Posted originally at Android Central
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