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Old 01-13-2008, 03:08 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by schettj View Post
A connected, dormant EVDO session DOES NOT cost you anything in power. Not a single milliamp. In fact, it costs more power to re-connect to EVDO then to start up a dormant connection.
That is the straight up answer.

Can't get any clearer than that. Well, you could type it in all caps

Anyway,

Activity with the network is the only part of the data connection that uses power.
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