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wifi4milez
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join:2004-08-07
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reply to jmn1207

Re: BlackBerry Needs This...Or Any Wi-Fi

said by jmn1207:

At least on the many popular models that have none.

"the company claims that the new chip won't be any more draining on phone batteries than existing 802.11g chipsets"

I am not sure how comforting this statement might be since the 802.11g significantly drains most existing devices when used for any length of time.
I completely agree. 802.11b/g has literally killed the battery of every phone I have ever used in what felt like minutes. My experience with wifi on phones (I have had many of them) has been so bad that I actually prefer to buy phones that do not include that feature any more.
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jmn1207
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I thought Wi-Fi was a power hog, but everything I have read suggests otherwise. Apparently, if given a choice, Wi-Fi is preferred over Edge and especially over 3G for the iPhone.

The tests shown suggest a much better performance with Wi-Fi.

Here are a few review/articles I was reading:

»www.anandtech.com/gadgets/showdo···036&cp=2

»blogs.chron.com/techblog/archive···n_1.html

I'm actually kind of disappointed at my discovery, being a BlackBerry fan boy. Sorry, it's crack.

Obviously you could save power by not having Wi-Fi enabled, or by not having it at all, as I prefer (yeah yeah sure, right ), but it seems to be more efficient than other wireless protocols. I suppose it is much closer to the receiver, so the transmit power would not have to be as high.

Unless I see otherwise, Wi-Fi is the shiznit, and I am just a grumpy BlackBerry user stuck with EV-DO Rev. 0. Five more months to go for a new phone.

Edit: I'm guessing that fanboy is supposed to be one word and not two in the context I meant. I suppose a "fan boy" might be one of those ancient Roman Empire slaves that wafted a large frond around to cool their servant?


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