Smartphone properties [was Poll: how long have you been into D]

[Russel Winder]

On Sun, 2013-07-07 at 09:38 +0200, Kagamin wrote:
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> I heard, wifi consumes the lion share of battery charge, try to 
> disable it.

WiFi can be a big battery drain, but so is the screen, and (perhaps most
importantly) the mobile aerial. The second of these is perhaps obvious,
the first and third depend on distance to the receiver since the output
signal of the phone is variable, the mobile signal much more than the
WiFi. If a phone is continually searching for a mobile base station
battery power will plummet.
 
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Russel.
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