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FirefoxOS does not assume an always available connection.

FirefoxOS does not assume an always available connection.

Posted Jul 2, 2013 19:23 UTC (Tue) by Alterego (guest, #55989)
Parent article: Heilmann: The Fox is out of the bag #FirefoxOS

This great.

I take train daily to go to work, and cross a kind of 'desert for connection' during 20 minutes.

The power management of android is a disaster in that case. It consumes a huge amount of battery while searching for networks, which last only one day if i forgot to put my phone in plane mode, whereas it lasts more than 5 days otherwise. (and my phone is configured, with G2 only connection, powersave, no autoupdate etc.)

If FirefoxOS adresses this problem, i'll switch with no hesitation.

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FirefoxOS does not assume an always available connection.

Posted Jul 10, 2013 13:49 UTC (Wed) by cesarb (subscriber, #6266) [Link]

> It consumes a huge amount of battery while searching for networks

I do not think FirefoxOS will help you. The code which manages the cellular network on all smartphones I know of is closed source, and even runs on a separate ARM core. AFAIK, it will not be specific to the operating system, only specific to the hardware.


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