February 23, 2010 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News
iPhone power saving features may be the cause of network overloads rather then its high bandwidth consumption, according to an ArsTechnica report.
Normally devices that access data networks use an idling state that maintains an open data channel between the device and the network.
However, in order to get more battery life, Apple configured the iPhone’s radio to simply drop a connection once it received its requested data. If more data is necessary the iPhone sets up a new connection. Read more…