 jmn1207Premium
join:2000-07-19
Ashburn, VA
1 edit | reply to wifi4milez
Re: BlackBerry Needs This...Or Any Wi-Fi 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? |
