{"id":271,"date":"2008-02-11T01:34:55","date_gmt":"2008-02-10T22:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/blog\/?p=271"},"modified":"2008-02-11T01:37:34","modified_gmt":"2008-02-10T22:37:34","slug":"how-much-3g-exactly-eats-your-battery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/?p=271","title":{"rendered":"How much 3G exactly eats your battery?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/pics\/power_helsinki.png\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The pic above,  taken from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forum.nokia.com\/main\/resources\/development_process\/power_management\/nokia_energy_profiler\/\">Nokia Energy Profiler<\/a>  shows first a short GSM call taking 0.9W and then a similar 3G call taking 1.35W in Helsinki city centre. In other words, a huge difference. My friend Mika who was in charge developing that particular app reports that a standard battery that would last 3 hours with 3G would last as much as 4h 45min with GSM! That&#8217;s also the main reason why my iPhone is running GSM &#8211; and I&#8217;m quite ok with that. Greenies will also conclude that 3G is not good for the environment&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pic above, taken from Nokia Energy Profiler shows first a short GSM call taking 0.9W and then a similar 3G call taking 1.35W in Helsinki city centre. In other words, a huge difference. My friend Mika who was in charge developing that particular app reports that a standard battery that would last 3 hours &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/?p=271\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How much 3G exactly eats your battery?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}