http://www.smartphonemag.com/cms/blog/9/tutorial-quickly-switch-between-3g-umts-hsdpa-and-gsm-gprs-edge-modes-optimize-battery-life Comments for "TUTORIAL: quickly switch between 3G (UMTS / HSDPA) and GSM (GPRS / EDGE) modes to optimize battery life!" en-US http://www.smartphonemag.com/cms/blog/9/tutorial-quickly-switch-between-3g-umts-hsdpa-and-gsm-gprs-edge-modes-optimize-battery-life#comment-6688 <p>To 3G? It depends. if you do need the fastest possible connection and/or your operator doesn't support EDGE, then, yes. On the other hand, if you aren't a (video) streaming fan and/or prefer browsing the Web over Opera Mini (as opposed to other, much more bandwidth-consuming clients), then, you'll see little difference between EDGE and UMTS / HSDPA.</p> pubDate Tue, 20 Nov 2007 23:50:53 -0600 dc:creator Werner Ruotsalainen guid false comment 6688 at http://www.smartphonemag.com/cms http://www.smartphonemag.com/cms/blog/9/tutorial-quickly-switch-between-3g-umts-hsdpa-and-gsm-gprs-edge-modes-optimize-battery-life#comment-6686 <p>Daniel, if you want really fast download speeds (for example, to access a TV stream or really quickly download mail or files), UMTS / HSDPA can prove much better than even EDGE, let alone GPRS.</p> pubDate Tue, 20 Nov 2007 14:53:43 -0600 dc:creator Werner Ruotsalainen guid false comment 6686 at http://www.smartphonemag.com/cms http://www.smartphonemag.com/cms/blog/9/tutorial-quickly-switch-between-3g-umts-hsdpa-and-gsm-gprs-edge-modes-optimize-battery-life#comment-6685 <p>"S.Christensen", thanks for the tip - I'll elaborate on this in an update of the article.</p> pubDate Tue, 20 Nov 2007 14:42:49 -0600 dc:creator Werner Ruotsalainen guid false comment 6685 at http://www.smartphonemag.com/cms