Comment Re: requires root access and will only run on Qual (Score 1) 71
Even without baseband support, if your OS/platform of choice exposes the cell tower ID to the main processor and gives you APIs to trigger it you could have an app that looks for the towers you dont like and when it finds one, switches the phone to airplane mode and gives you a warning. Apple does not provide the relavent APIs (although anyone concerned enough about privacy that they are worried about rogue cell towers shouldn't be using a crApple phone anyway)
Android appears to provide APIs for getting the cell tower ID. Switching airplane mode on cant be done by apps as of Android 4.2 (it was made a protected setting, presumably for valid reasons) but if you root your device you can overcome that limitation.
If you have an N900, you can easily get access to the cell tower ID AND toggle airplane mode via dbus calls.