Hello everyone,
I'm using an iPhone 4 on Telus in Canada since last October, and have to say that I love the experience mostly. My phone is jailbroken, and am using a few tweaks, like BiteSMS and Winterboard. I do have a strong Blackberry background, being a BES Admin at my job, and had blackberries for my personal line for a few years. I stumbled upon a good deal on an iPhone and decided it was the occasion to try it out.
I come across the following statement now and then: "Push notifications use more battery on an iDevice". I always ask myself how it can be... Isn't Push supposed to help with battery life?
The way I understand Push is that a smartphone will simply wait for a message from a push server to go through it's network before notifying the user that an email/status/tweet has come in, instead of always checking at regular intervals... That's supposed to be how BBs could have so much battery life until recently (I used a 9900 for a few months, and cannot go through more than a day on a single charge... Things change...
So I ask: What am I missing in the way Apple implements Push notifications? If anyone could explain to me how it works and how it affects battery life, then I'll understand my iPhone a little better, and be better informed when an app asks if I want it to use push...
I'm not trying to start a war... If you see this post as a "Blackberry is better than iPhone" message, wait a few seconds before answering, it will pass.. And if it does not, please move on to the next thread... Flames and otherwise not relevant answers will be spectacularly ignored...
Thanks
I'm using an iPhone 4 on Telus in Canada since last October, and have to say that I love the experience mostly. My phone is jailbroken, and am using a few tweaks, like BiteSMS and Winterboard. I do have a strong Blackberry background, being a BES Admin at my job, and had blackberries for my personal line for a few years. I stumbled upon a good deal on an iPhone and decided it was the occasion to try it out.
I come across the following statement now and then: "Push notifications use more battery on an iDevice". I always ask myself how it can be... Isn't Push supposed to help with battery life?
The way I understand Push is that a smartphone will simply wait for a message from a push server to go through it's network before notifying the user that an email/status/tweet has come in, instead of always checking at regular intervals... That's supposed to be how BBs could have so much battery life until recently (I used a 9900 for a few months, and cannot go through more than a day on a single charge... Things change...
So I ask: What am I missing in the way Apple implements Push notifications? If anyone could explain to me how it works and how it affects battery life, then I'll understand my iPhone a little better, and be better informed when an app asks if I want it to use push...
I'm not trying to start a war... If you see this post as a "Blackberry is better than iPhone" message, wait a few seconds before answering, it will pass.. And if it does not, please move on to the next thread... Flames and otherwise not relevant answers will be spectacularly ignored...
Thanks