I’m wondering if one of the primary reasons that my iPhone 3G is draining it’s battery at a shocking rate whenever it’s unplugged is due to the Exchange integration?
I was delighted when I was able to configure my device with my calendar, contacts and whatnot. It just sucked down all my data and whenever I add a contact or calendar entry on my desktop — woosh — it appears nigh-on immediately on my iPhone.
But that must account for some kind of overhead, right? It’s apparently ‘pushing’ to the device. I’m thinking of changing it to ‘pull’ (although I’m not quite clear on how I actually ‘pull’ data down. Maybe a ’sync’ button appears?).
We shall see. Has anyone else been using Exchange on their iPhone whilst the battery drains before their eyes?
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Can't do without Push email though...
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Anyone offer a check-and-notify-of-new-email-by-SMS service, that uses your bundled SMS allowance? This can't be a new thing, surely....
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On 8 Aug 2008, at 11:03, "Disqus" <notifications-
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This is similar to the way the little voicemail & fax indications work.
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erm, you can - honest - really.
joking aside - its interesting that your moaning about the E71 only having 3 days of battery life!
iPhone is lucky to make it to lunch :)
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Saying that though, OpenHand is a polling email client, yet customers were not willing to wait even a minute for an email...
My Nokia 7710 lasts about a week, bigger screen than the iPhone, though a tad less elegant.
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BlackBerry have this one nailed, using out-of-band signalling, ie a message is sent to the device over the mobile network telling it to go and get some data. That way BlackBerry just establishes data connection when needed. I suspect that they might do something funky with the data stack as well, though that is pure speculation.
I've resorted to buying a Proporta mobile charger (http://www.proporta.com/F02/PPF02P05.php?t_id=2...). Keep it in my bag and I'm never far away from a top up. It does my Nokia as well.
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On 8 Aug 2008, at 13:05, "Disqus" <notifications-
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However, it remains a lovely, lovely thing.
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On 8 Aug 2008, at 13:09, "Disqus" <notifications-
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On 8 Aug 2008, at 23:13, "Disqus"
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On my old Palm device the ActiveSync implementation allowed for "push" or to set a polling schedule (e.g. every 10 minutes the phone would pull). I used the pull method for years and had no issues. Alas, this configurability is not available on my iPhone.
I'm considering switching off ActiveSync, but I really need my calendar sync'd to the exchange version -- and I can't be without the accept/decline for meeting invites I can get to my corp mail through IMAP/POP, but don't know how to maintain calendar in sync -- any thoughts?
Lastly, why does the iphone implementation ping the server EVERY time I go to a mail message? (often even if the message has been previously opened?) This seems like a particularly chatty implementation and many times it takes as long as 2 to 3 seconds just to open a mail message. If the connection is slow (Edge) then it can take even longer (again, for a message that has come in several hours prior...).
Also,
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It really sucks!
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