Battery life on GPRS/EDGE vs UMTS/HSDPA

[markyeungcy]

Hi all,

Made an experiment with 100% battery and connected with agilemessenger on a UMTS network. It only took 3 hours to drain my 100% battery to zero.

And I also tried to connect agilemessenger on a EDGE/GPRS network, after 12 hours of connection, I still have 50% of battery remaining.

I REALLY wonder does a UMTS network draw battery that bad compare to a GPRS/EDGE network literally?

Can anyone comment about this?

Thanks

Mark

[williamchan_hksar]

Same situation here with UMTS, how do you choose to connect between normal EDGE and UMTS network ? I am currently in HK and using service from CSL1010.

Cheers

[markyeungcy]

Originally Posted by williamchan_hksar Same situation here with UMTS, how do you choose to connect between normal EDGE and UMTS network ? I am currently in HK and using service from CSL1010. Cheers

by using another non-3G sim card to try out.

[eva_d]

Originally Posted by markyeungcy Made an experiment with 100% battery and connected with agilemessenger on a UMTS network.

my experiment showed that in 3G mode, my Vario II is able to last no more that 2 days on full battery, while in 2G mode this time doubles up to almost 4 days.