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

[Paulo Pinto]

Am 07.07.2013 09:49, schrieb Russel Winder:
> On Sun, 2013-07-07 at 09:38 +0200, Kagamin wrote:
> […]
>> 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.
>
>

I used to work for a certain Finnish mobile company. There is no if.

The mobiles need to continuously talk with their cells to handle antenna
transitions, network notifications, sms/mms protocol handling among many
many other things.

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Paulo