Re: Which uses less power

On 2024-10-22 19:41, Frank Slootweg wrote:

VanguardLH <V@nguard.lh> wrote:

Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> wrote:
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Bill Powell <bill@anarchists.org> wrote:

Which uses less of the phone's battery power on long trips?
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Playing long podcasts with the Android speaker as the output?
Playing long podcasts with a Bluetooth speaker as the output instead?
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Any idea?

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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.
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The best way to save power is use airplane mode which turns off the mobile
radio.

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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.

Not if you use any regular podcast application for mobile phones.
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Cheers, Carlos.