Re: Which uses less power

VanguardLH <V@nguard.lh> wrote:

Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> wrote:
 

Bill Powell <bill@anarchists.org> 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'
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcast>

"A podcast is a program made available in digital format for download
 over the Internet."