On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Kristopher Micinski
<krismicin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I suspected this, but I didn't look at LocationManager's implementation :-(

Actually, I got it from the docs, where they added this somewhere
along the line to requestLocationUpdates():

"This field is only used as a hint to conserve power, and actual time
between location updates may be greater or lesser than this value."

> I think the reason people ask this is that they (incorrectly) think
> they will be saving battery life..

That's the theory. I don't know how well it works in practice.

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