http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/sensorly-aims-to-keep-coverage-maps-honest/ Engadget Comments for Sensorly aims to keep coverage maps honest http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/sensorly-aims-to-keep-coverage-maps-honest/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/sensorly-aims-to-keep-coverage-maps-honest/
I really need an app like this for the next month, I was excited until it didn't exist.]]>Feb 5th 2010 5:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/sensorly-aims-to-keep-coverage-maps-honest/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/sensorly-aims-to-keep-coverage-maps-honest/Feb 5th 2010 5:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/sensorly-aims-to-keep-coverage-maps-honest/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/sensorly-aims-to-keep-coverage-maps-honest/
Actually it isn't in my app store at all. Also, this happens time and time over, and I don't think it'd be that hard to notify international readers. And reading some of the other comments here, even when the app is available, it doesn't necessarily work in other countries/networks.]]>Feb 5th 2010 7:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/sensorly-aims-to-keep-coverage-maps-honest/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/sensorly-aims-to-keep-coverage-maps-honest/Bah, no Verizon? I was really excited about this until that part.]]>Feb 5th 2010 9:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/sensorly-aims-to-keep-coverage-maps-honest/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/sensorly-aims-to-keep-coverage-maps-honest/
Don't expect to see it on the iPhone since their is no multitasking on this phone. (=> no wifi/GPS detector running in background => no maps updates from iPhone users)]]>Feb 5th 2010 10:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/sensorly-aims-to-keep-coverage-maps-honest/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/sensorly-aims-to-keep-coverage-maps-honest/
It's not US-only. Here's a link to some search results which show the apps created for various providers:

http://www.androlib.com/android.developer.sensorly-com-jtDn.aspx
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Just because they won't get a lot of input from iphone users doesn't mean that you won't be able to benefit from the data gathered by android and winmo users. ]]>Feb 5th 2010 1:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/sensorly-aims-to-keep-coverage-maps-honest/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/sensorly-aims-to-keep-coverage-maps-honest/
Multi-tasking != multi-threading. The iPhone is perfectly capable of running multi-threaded apps. Leave the technical feasibility of such an application to people who actually understand software development. ]]>Feb 5th 2010 1:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/sensorly-aims-to-keep-coverage-maps-honest/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/sensorly-aims-to-keep-coverage-maps-honest/
They say on their website an iPhone version will be available soon

With Windows Mobile following up

with a possible symbian and blackberry version in the far future]]>Feb 5th 2010 3:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/sensorly-aims-to-keep-coverage-maps-honest/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/sensorly-aims-to-keep-coverage-maps-honest/Feb 5th 2010 5:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/sensorly-aims-to-keep-coverage-maps-honest/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/sensorly-aims-to-keep-coverage-maps-honest/Feb 5th 2010 6:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/sensorly-aims-to-keep-coverage-maps-honest/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/sensorly-aims-to-keep-coverage-maps-honest/ I didn't read the article properly. My bad!]]>Feb 5th 2010 9:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/sensorly-aims-to-keep-coverage-maps-honest/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/sensorly-aims-to-keep-coverage-maps-honest/Feb 5th 2010 5:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/sensorly-aims-to-keep-coverage-maps-honest/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/sensorly-aims-to-keep-coverage-maps-honest/
They only send your phone ID, signal strength, and location (unless they are doing something sneaky). They don't ask for anything extra. They can only tie phone idea to a real world person if your carrier gives it to them. Now, if they are a branch of homeland security, i'm sure they have it already :)

]]>Feb 5th 2010 9:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/sensorly-aims-to-keep-coverage-maps-honest/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/sensorly-aims-to-keep-coverage-maps-honest/i just dont like that they want us to send them all this data, and then plan on charging for the app to view the maps.]]>Feb 5th 2010 1:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/sensorly-aims-to-keep-coverage-maps-honest/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/sensorly-aims-to-keep-coverage-maps-honest/Feb 5th 2010 5:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/sensorly-aims-to-keep-coverage-maps-honest/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/sensorly-aims-to-keep-coverage-maps-honest/Very nice thing.]]>Feb 5th 2010 5:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/sensorly-aims-to-keep-coverage-maps-honest/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/sensorly-aims-to-keep-coverage-maps-honest/
good if they could add a third metric on top of 'network operator' to be 'handset make/model'. in fact i guess they are probably gathering this data but just not publishing it - would be interesting.]]>Feb 5th 2010 5:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/sensorly-aims-to-keep-coverage-maps-honest/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/sensorly-aims-to-keep-coverage-maps-honest/Very nice app, I just need an Android phone now. I hope they bring it out for Symbian as well so I can use it right away.]]>Feb 5th 2010 5:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/sensorly-aims-to-keep-coverage-maps-honest/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/sensorly-aims-to-keep-coverage-maps-honest/Feb 5th 2010 5:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/sensorly-aims-to-keep-coverage-maps-honest/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/sensorly-aims-to-keep-coverage-maps-honest/I'd not be surprised though if this sort of stuff was done automatically, as part of the sync. Don't cellphones send their strength back to the tower they're connecting to? Would make sense for the networks to collect this by default. Just cool that end-users can see this sort of data.]]>Feb 5th 2010 5:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/sensorly-aims-to-keep-coverage-maps-honest/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/sensorly-aims-to-keep-coverage-maps-honest/Feb 5th 2010 6:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/sensorly-aims-to-keep-coverage-maps-honest/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/sensorly-aims-to-keep-coverage-maps-honest/Feb 5th 2010 6:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/sensorly-aims-to-keep-coverage-maps-honest/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/sensorly-aims-to-keep-coverage-maps-honest/Feb 5th 2010 10:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/sensorly-aims-to-keep-coverage-maps-honest/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/sensorly-aims-to-keep-coverage-maps-honest/
They'll give you an average. That's a lot better than nothing.]]>Feb 5th 2010 1:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/sensorly-aims-to-keep-coverage-maps-honest/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/sensorly-aims-to-keep-coverage-maps-honest/Feb 5th 2010 9:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/sensorly-aims-to-keep-coverage-maps-honest/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/sensorly-aims-to-keep-coverage-maps-honest/Feb 5th 2010 9:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/sensorly-aims-to-keep-coverage-maps-honest/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/sensorly-aims-to-keep-coverage-maps-honest/Feb 5th 2010 10:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/sensorly-aims-to-keep-coverage-maps-honest/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/sensorly-aims-to-keep-coverage-maps-honest/Feb 5th 2010 11:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/sensorly-aims-to-keep-coverage-maps-honest/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/sensorly-aims-to-keep-coverage-maps-honest/Feb 5th 2010 12:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/sensorly-aims-to-keep-coverage-maps-honest/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/sensorly-aims-to-keep-coverage-maps-honest/Feb 5th 2010 12:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/sensorly-aims-to-keep-coverage-maps-honest/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/sensorly-aims-to-keep-coverage-maps-honest/Feb 5th 2010 2:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/sensorly-aims-to-keep-coverage-maps-honest/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/sensorly-aims-to-keep-coverage-maps-honest/Feb 5th 2010 2:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/sensorly-aims-to-keep-coverage-maps-honest/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/sensorly-aims-to-keep-coverage-maps-honest/
I never turn on WiFi on my G1 unless I'm at home or at work, and only when I think I'll be using the browser long enough for the speed boost to be worth the battery drain.

I'll install Sensorly out of curiosity, but I'll remove it pretty soon it if the app is still turning on the WiFi chip periodically.]]>Feb 6th 2010 8:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/sensorly-aims-to-keep-coverage-maps-honest/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/sensorly-aims-to-keep-coverage-maps-honest/Feb 7th 2010 2:01AM