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When your network isn�t enough...

3 replies · 3,841 views · Started 23 February 2010

Ars Technica have taken a good look at network congestion on AT&T in the US and O2 in the UK to try and find out why modern smartphones that drop the data connection as soon as possible to save battery are causing so many problems for the networks, and causing frustration for the end users.

Read on in the full article.

Amazing to read that iPhone uses connection dropping to save battery, I find that I am regularly in the settings switching features on when I need them, and off to save battery. If you want to use the features, location, notification, push etc then the battery gets hammered.

This is something very telling about the efficiency of these OSes that have been adapted from desktop unix/linux.

I have problem about my smart phone and i have phone which name is Google htc 3gs.i also get appropriate network which i want .but i can save my battery if i am not using 3gs facility then it will discharge in few hour so i am also network problem and i think this because of the battery ?tell me suggestion?