On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Federico Paolinelli <fedep...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Would this be true also for coarse locations?

If you mean the network provider, that should be a lot less, but I
haven't experimented much with this provider.

> Another option
> could be periodically starting a service with an alarm, try to get the
> location and then shut down the location updates. In this way I would
> be pretty sure the radio is off when I don't need location updates.

Right. Creating a variation on WakefulIntentService that supports this
pattern is one of the 18,000 items on my to-do list. :-)

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