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Hodakaguy

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I came from a Iphone 3G on AT&T and found the Push to be very unreliable on that phone. I would just rather set the phone to fetch every 15 minutes. Will the fetch use more battery than having the phone on push?

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I believe fetch will use more battery because you are constantly activating the radio every 15 minutes. I know this was true of my Omnia (winmo). Push seems to be less stress on the battery.
 
Hodakaguy said:
I came from a Iphone 3G on AT&T and found the Push to be very unreliable on that phone. I would just rather set the phone to fetch every 15 minutes. Will the fetch use more battery than having the phone on push?

Hodakaguy
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Excellent question: if anyone can provide a definitive answer on this, it would be much appreciated.
 
I've used push/fetch connected to an exchange server on both my Droid X & iPhone 3GS. In both cases fetch is better on battery life.

Technically push is only supposed to use bandwidth when the server tells it there is a new message available, however it must maintain a secure connection to the server, this connection is broken and re-established throughout the day so it ends up being almost constant whereas fetch only uses bandwidth at a specified polling interval. I can't use fetch because most days I get well over 100 messages and many require a quick response so I don't have the option of having a 5 minute fetch cycle, I could get 10 messages in that amount of time. So IMO fetch will be much better on the battery, assuming you choose a relatively long refresh interval like 30 minutes+
 
Thanks a lot guys. I had the same question and was expecting that Fetch will be less of battery drainer. I am happy to see your answers confirming that.

Thanks! Keep the juice flowing! ;)
 
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