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When Apple was writing the signal strength algorithm, they forgot to account for the reality distortion field.

Actually they put in the reality distortion field in. Currently, ~50% of the dBm = 5 bars. Now the fix is to take the reality distortion field out.

the RDF was put in back in '08 via OS 2.1 update to "improve the accuracy of the 3G signal".