<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">True of pretty much any phone, just more noticeable on the smartphones that are more power demanding. When a mobile polls for nearby tower and doesn't get a response it ramps ups its own signal to full intensity in an effort to elicit some response. If it currently has a signal and notices it is getting weaker it does the same thing.<div>Hammers the battery pretty quick obviously.<br><div><div><br><div><div>On 01/08/2008, at 4:36 PM, <a href="mailto:maced-request@zeus.as.edu.au">maced-request@zeus.as.edu.au</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; ">Message: 5<br>Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 12:10:53 +1000<br>From: Jock Webb <<a href="mailto:jocknjo1@bordernet.com.au">jocknjo1@bordernet.com.au</a>><br>Subject: Re: [Maced] How to get only 5 hours out of your iPhone<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>battery<br>To: Macs in Education <<a href="mailto:maced@zeus.as.edu.au">maced@zeus.as.edu.au</a>><br>Message-ID: <a0601020dc4b81ff74238@[10.16.139.90]><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed"<br><br>Quentin<br>That is true of all G3 phones I would think and was true though with<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>less drain of my old Nokia CDMA. I live in a area which apparently is<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>not "everywhere you need it". If travelling over some distance, my<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>phone, which might last for a few days to a week in light use, will<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>cark it after about 6-12 hours with few or no calls and it isn't<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>complex.<br>Jock<br></span></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></body></html>