The next gen of nanophosphate batteries should help with the power
issues.
Tony Whelan
Sent from my iPhone
On Oct 20, 2008, at 6:03 PM, elektra <onelek...@gmx.net> wrote:
Hi -
I've got "joikuspot" installed on my phone (Symbian) ... battery is
drained within 2 hours...
this is the crux of current WiFi interfaces in mobile phones. WiFi
consumes way to much power - especially if a phone forwards traffic
for other devices. It is possible - but the mobile handset will need
to have the size and weight of a mobile phone 8 years ago, simply to
provide the battery capacity. Batman-Experimental has an option to
disable routing traffic for other phones (--asocial-device : mobile
device mode reluctant to help others). An "asocial" device will just
make itself known to the existing mesh infrastructure and use the
closest Batman node as a gateway. It will only reply to Originator
messages originated by the chosen gateway. Together with a slow OGM
interval you can roam within an existing mesh infrastructure without
wearing your batteries out quickly.
I've heard wmfhotspot for windows mobile is just thesame... and
best of all the HTC brand consumes more energy than it's charger so
even with a powerplug you have no chance :-)
That sounds like a miserable design.
Cheers,
elektra
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