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Originally Posted by MaxiKana View Post
after getting my device las wednesday and having a 6-7 hour battery life I'm starting my process of improving it. currently i have irssi on all the time which I assume eats alot of power. I'm gonna try running my phone with irssi off next cycle to see if there is an improvement. My friend lost only 15% of his charge last night using irssi over ssh instead of directly off of the phone. I'm guessing the constant ping pongs use the radio alot which drains battery.
That's crossing my mind too. If packet transmission or waking up the 3G radio is a significant power drain, I'm wondering if there may be a market for an app+internet service combo which combines the pinging traffic for all the different IM services, Facebook widgets and so on into a single low-rate keepalive stream, to a server which fans them out.