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Re: Which drains more when steaming media, 3G or WiFi?

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Originally Posted by Anonymatt View Post
Um, quick question, when you were checking the power draw, were you actively using the EVDO connection? Because when I'm surfing the web, any time I load a page, or download anything I draw about 350-400 mA, but while it is idle my power consumption will drop down to 57 mA (same as when I don't have any connection established). Perhaps if I only had 150-200 mA draw then my battery would last longer when I use the internet.
No, no connections were in-use in the sense that they were pulling data from the web. I figured a more fair test would be just to see how much each radio draws from the battery just as they were. Leaving the Wi-Fi enabled and not accessing data would, from your tests, seem to draw as much power as using an EV-DO connection that is in the process of accessing data. Logically, running an application such as a browser to pull data through a Wi-Fi connection would just increase the power draw.
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