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Originally Posted by phattooth
Rodger that, thank you.
So basically, we can say WiFi or Data Connection... both are gonna drain the battery at about the same rate?
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Yes, that's true. I noticed similar results when I tested the 3 different popular radios. No difference.
My reasoning is that all these items are SOFTWARE related. The main Qualcomm 7500 chip just uses these different items to process the information. The processing chip doesn't really care where it gets it's input...it just processes the info that it receives. My guess for the WiFi/EVDO is that those items just tell the radio how to get the info...In either case, you are not turning on another piece of hardware...The phone is always active....so it's just dialing #777. The wifi connection still has to get in thru the antenna and probably passes thru the radio that sorts it all out. I tried putting the phone in the "airplane" mode to turn it off, but it also turned off the WiFi connection, so it couldn't be tested in that fashion.
Don't know how correct I am in those assumptions, but after a couple of beers, they sound reasonable.
That's why I think alot of this battery improvement with the different radios and connections is "imaginary". Every test I have run gives nearly the same results IF THE CONDITIONS ARE KEPT CONSTANT.
Bob