Path: ...!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: VanguardLH Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: Which uses less power Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2024 12:15:51 -0500 Organization: Usenet Elder Lines: 24 Sender: V@nguard.LH Message-ID: <14ugij8hkhj5m$.dlg@v.nguard.lh> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net clK5vR4l0dq592km0qPWMwMoOVytjpOQsjmnG0GhG2DEyr/eIQ Keywords: VanguardLH,VLH Cancel-Lock: sha1:HeRvniQUK99SwYcsV63NM3GBn2E= sha256:g7MOe//0pL3BnQprojgp7q4eNBBlEGU1pfwWZzIgVzE= User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.15.41 Bytes: 1792 Chris wrote: > Bill Powell wrote: >> Which uses less of the phone's battery power on long trips? >> >> Playing long podcasts with the Android speaker as the output? >> Playing long podcasts with a Bluetooth speaker as the output instead? >> >> Any idea? > > Too marginal to say definitively. It might make a difference if you > routinely turn off BT when using the internal speaker, but most people > don't. > > The best way to save power is use airplane mode which turns off the mobile > radio. But no cellular radio (for data aka Internet) means no podcast. The OP isn't listening to local audio files on his phone. He is listening to a podcast, and that requires Internet access which requires the cellular radio for data. I suppose he could be using an app to first download a podcast to save to a local file on his phone, but he didn't mention how is is listening to the podcast: locally downloaded file, or streaming from Internet.