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#378
Originally Posted by eiffel View Post
With my N810 and bluetooth phone, browsing the web over 3G is making use of two batteries: one in the tablet and one in the phone.

In the N900, one battery has to do both jobs.
That's somewhat offset by the N900 battery not having to feed both sides of a bluetooth PPP session. But yeah, 3G connectivity is probably the largest (or maybe second-largest after the screen?) battery drain on the device and there are advantages to offloading that to a separate device.