Thread: What is your battery life?
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MaxiKana is offline MaxiKana
2009-12-13 , 12:47
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#12
Originally Posted by go1dfish View Post
But if you have things constantly transferring data, your power efficiency will suck. 3G, and the power saving behavior of the WiFi radio on the device are oriented towards burst traffic with periods of inactivity between (web browsing), not slow steady streams of data.
Yes, this is supported by my current findings with my battery drain tests. I wonder if it's possible to fine-tune the IM plugins to NOT check who is online constantly, but say every five minutes or so? Or does that go against the APIs from Skype/MSN/Google? It seems unnessesary for the IM accounts to constantly exchange information from the servers.