By Shira Ovide
And the bars are a cellular version of a shrug. There is no standard measure of how much signal strength each bar represents.
“The connection icon is a lie,” said Avi Greengart, president of the technology analysis firm Techsponential.
I’ll explain how to make sense of your fibbing phone and what you can do about it.
Why are we walking around hunting for more bars?!
The number of bars you see is a best guess and not a precise measurement of the strength of your phone’s connection. “It just means you’ve got a signal,” said Ken Hyers, director of device technologies for research firm TechInsights.
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