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Android application offered to help measure signal strength across the country.
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Android application offered to help measure signal strength across the country.
Its a good idea although I can't understand why it keeps wanting to use GPS to get an exact location fix. Wouldn't cell phone tower based rough locationing be good enough for a rough map (If you load google maps with GPS off you'll know what I mean). Anyway I've had to turn off my GPS as it was beginning to kill my battery.
It needs the GPS, as that's how in notes your location when the phone cannot contact a tower, this data is then stored and forwarded once a connection is re-established.
It can still use A-GPS without the need for actual GPS.Quote:
Originally Posted by CWH
TBH if you have no signal then more often than not you're going to be inside a building where you won't get a GPS fix anyway, so it's almost entirely useless, and reduces uptake because no-one wants to install a battery hog. As evidenced by the top x number of pages of comments on the app, all rating one or two stars with anti-battery-hog reasons.
While there are a lot of Android phones out there I would have thought they would have made the app for at least a few more types of OS's. iOS, Blackberry OS & Windows phone 7, they do make up a massive proportion of smart phones.
Android seems to account for 45% of the current smartphone in the UK:
http://www.pcr-online.biz/news/36656...et-share-slide
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscente...ures_show.html
It seems BlackBerry has a higher market share in the UK than Apple!
In many European countries the market share Apple had been reduced too:
http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/...s-to-18-3.html
Splendid (note: sarcasm). The BBC has found yet another way to spend our TV license fees, but not on television or radio. I wish so much that I could opt out of the television tax.