[manekineko]

There's a cool, random little feature on Gingerbread where the status bar icons for wifi or 3G will turn white when they can't connect to Google.

I guess normally, the idea is for hotels and other wifi access points that require you to go to a portal page before you can access the Internet.

It's pretty handy for us and our fritzy data connections, though. Can just glance down and notice the icons are white instead of green and know that even though my phone claims it's connected, the data connection is actually dead and needs to be disabled and re-enabled.