[OSX-Users] Re: iPhone 3.0 battery life?

[Ben Hodgson]

Doesn't both push and polling operate over any old standard TCP/IP
connection (which AFAIK the iPhone has)?

Disclaimer: I'm getting into "I'm not 100% sure what I'm talking about"
territory.

-- Ben


On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Marcus Cobden <mc08r at ecs.soton.ac.uk>wrote:

>
> On 19 Jul 2009, at 16:35, Philip Boulain wrote:
>
> > Hugh Glaser wrote:
> >> I think you may find that "push" is on by default.
> >> If you switch it off, going back to polling for email...you may get
> >> back to "normal".
> >
> > That seems odd. Isn't the point of push mail that it's more
> > efficient, avoiding the need for the phone to keep transmitting
> > "Hey! Do I have any mail yet? What about now? What about now?"
>
> The design choice probably came down to cost.
> It's cheaper and easier to code it that way than to ask the carriers
> to invest in new hardware and software updates on their networks so
> they can do it right.
>
>
>
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