Screen Icons
Here's a roundup of the icons that you may see in the status bar at the top of the iPhone screen, from left to right:

Cell signal. As on any cellphone, the number of bars indicates the strength of your cell signal, and thus the quality of
your call audio and the likelihood of losing the connection. If there are zero bars, the dreaded words "No service" appear
here.
or
Network type. The
means your iPhone is connected to the Internet via AT&T's
very slow EDGE cellular network. In general, if you have a cell signal, you also have
an EDGE signal. (If you see this one
, that means GPRS, better known as "the even older, even slower
Internet network," is in operation instead.)If you see the
logo instead, get psyched; not only are you using an iPhone 3G or 3GS, but you're also in one ...
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