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It should also be noted that WiFi uses considerably less battery than mobile data does, so while convenient, this probably won't replace WiFi anytime soon unles
by libeclipse 10y ago
It should also be noted that WiFi uses considerably less battery than mobile data does, so while convenient, this probably won't replace WiFi anytime soon unless there's a massive boost to battery technology.
- legulere 10y agoI heard that for the first time, so I looked around and found this paper: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~lierranli/coms6998-7Spring2014/papers/rrclte_mobisys2012.pdf http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~lierranli/coms6998-7Spring2014/p... Here the problem seems to be that the base power needed (beta in table 4) is way higher than for wifi. I wonder if the numbers have changed since 2012 though.