Path: ...!npeer.as286.net!npeer-ng0.as286.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Frank Slootweg Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: Which uses less power Date: 22 Oct 2024 17:41:05 GMT Organization: NOYB Lines: 37 Message-ID: References: <14ugij8hkhj5m$.dlg@v.nguard.lh> X-Trace: individual.net VgQW28LXf2+SfYSRBsDTkQLJnCPuzC3t7ss6cR/D1MoDskwUtP X-Orig-Path: not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:/OkbOiZZSS2bSIkw2iDdlAzcFzc= sha256:Q82iTpsadSTmD3YDQeKjzl5L3x06UTSbjBCIZvv1unA= User-Agent: tin/1.6.2-20030910 ("Pabbay") (UNIX) (CYGWIN_NT-10.0-WOW/2.8.0(0.309/5/3) (i686)) Hamster/2.0.2.2 Bytes: 2269 VanguardLH wrote: > 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. I haven't used podcasts in a while, but when I still did, downloading (in MP3 format) was the normal way, i.e. not streaming and no Internet needed to play. Wikipedia implies that's still the case: 'Podcast' "A podcast is a program made available in digital format for download over the Internet."