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by DrJokepu 5842 days ago
Not sure about Blackberry, but on Android: Settings / About phone / Status / Signal strength
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m_hughes 5842 days ago
You can always call this number from your iPhone: 3001#12345#

and put your phone in field test mode

(http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/iphone/iphone-field-test-mode-let...)

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rryyan 5842 days ago
Unfortunately this capability has been removed from iOS4: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=942533. Just confirmed it on my iPhone 4.
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brown9-2 5842 days ago
on Blackberry it's under Options, Status
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jarek 5842 days ago
And via the API: http://www.blackberry.com/developers/docs/5.0.0api/net/rim/d...

An app that instructs the user to pick up the phone and hold it to his head as he would while talking, records the RSSI over a course of a couple of minutes, then graphs or displays the results might be an interesting weekend project.

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