Thread: N900 battery life questions, issues, scenarios
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2009-12-02 , 15:15
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#326
Originally Posted by MaemoCurmudgeon View Post
The best laid plans....just as you are a unique individual the N900 is unique from your N800. you will be disappointed if you think the N900 will work as you describe. All evidence (as opposed to speculation) seems to support a very power hungry WiFi system.
That would be extremely disappointing and make the N900 pretty useless to me. It would however be very strange if Nokia just abandonded all the work they most definitely did on the previous tablets for reducing the wi-fi power consumption as much as possible.

Secondly have you every surfed/used 3G,3.5G - just as functional as WiFi - with less power consumption.
I own a 3G/HSDPA USB dongle. I've completely stopped using it because, around my city at least, it's completely unusable. Occasionally everything will be fine, but most of the time the packet loss over the 3G/3.5G network is way too high and results in TCP/IP stalling. Working with interactive traffic like e.g. Ajax in google mail is more or less impossible. It was sometimes so frustrating that I went back to good old dial-up over v90 and got better performance.
So, it's wi-fi for me (and there's wi-fi everywhere), or nothing. As for power consumption: Maybe the N900 is better, but the dongle sucks 500mA+.
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