OdinHades said:
RandomK said:
Very interesting, now I am always going to have LTE active on my 5. I wonder how it extends battery life though. hmm
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LTE uses lower frequencies than 3G most of the time (800 MHz in europe, I think 900 MHz in the US) which results in less energy drain. If you live in a big city however, LTE uses frequencies like 1800 MHz or 2800 MHz (or something in between, depends on your region) which will drain your battery a lot quicker.
For reference, 3G uses frequencies at about 2 GHz.
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There's more to it than that. Suppose the LTE radio on your phone uses 50% more power than 3G, but your carrier can deliver twice the bandwidth over LTE that it can over 3G. If all that is true, the LTE radio will still use 25% less power to download a file by completing the job in half the time, thereby returning to idle sooner.
Then there are various other improvements, such as the time it takes to process a request, and provider-side improvements that allow carriers to support more users without congestion.
None of this was quite enough to save power on first-gen LTE devices, just because the silicon was so immature. But now that the chips are more refined, LTE offers a lot of advantages.
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