On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 11:31 PM, Mike Hodson <<a href="mailto:mystica@gmail.com">mystica@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>Actually, the battery issue is due to one main concept, the difference<br>
between air interfaces: Time Division Duplex, or Code Division Duplex.<br>
GSM/TDMA uses timeslots, vs CDMA/UMTS using a special code to spread<br>
its constant output to a wide 1.25mhz (CDMA2000) or 5mhz<br>
(3G/UMTS)spectrum. GSM has 8 timeslots per channel. Therefore, with<br>
GSM you end up only having to power up the recieve hardware (and god<br>
knows what else, amplifiers, supporting hardware, codecs?) only 1/8 of<br>
the time. I would presume even less when in AMR half-rate, being only<br>
1/2 of the original timeslot is used for carrying the voice payload.<br>
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CDMA/UMTS and GSM all stop/limit transmitting when you aren't talking,<br>
but again, when you ARE talking, 1/8 of the time transmitting vs 1/1<br>
of the time transmitting = a lot more power used for code-division<br>
spread spectrum style air interfaces.<br>
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Standby times also are affected by this, but are IMHO more to do with<br>
the manufacturers skill at power reduction versus the transmission of<br>
(re-)registration data to the network on an occasional basis.<br>
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My 2 cents.<br>
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Mike</font></blockquote><div><br>Your partially right - but that technical differences are not the reason for the power "problem".<br>The point is, that UMTS sends a much weaker signal.<br>While GSM devices send with up to 30 dBm (in the past it was up to 33 dBm for handhelds and 39 dBm for car phones) the maximum transmitting power in UMTS is 21 dBm (partially 24 dBm).<br>
Usually UMTS devices are capable of a very fine scaling in small steps between -50 dBm and 21(24) dBm. As far as I know the usual transmitting power in a good covered areas is about 0 dBm.<br>GSM basestations usually send constantly at 40 dBm (at least in the modern german GSM networks, there might be differences in networks with bigger cells), but the mobile device is able do a good scaling, too. It is assumed, that the average transmitting power is about 9 dBm (this includes the scaling and the pulsed transmission).<br>
<br>So many numbers, so less reality. Like I said - it's not the technique what is the problem - it's the immatuerness and, what I see as the number one reason, the complexity. My guess is, that it's not the RF part what is the problem here - it's the chipset itself.<br>
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