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Don't take my "back in your pocket" comment too literally. The CPU is going to go into low-power states quite frequently while you're using these I/O bound applications you describe, and the sooner it can, the better. I don't think what I'm saying is controversial in the mobile industry. For example, here's an old article that has a quote about the effects of Intel's Quick Start technology from back in the year 2000…
While what you're saying about CPUs is correct, that is not the main battery hog in smartphones (additionally why Apple is staying so far from LTE at the moment) The biggest demon is by FAR the radios. The amount apps and the phone use that is mostly determined 1> by how much the user wants notifications (which are basically implemented by constant polling, even in background notifications), or 2> how network intensi…
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#131True. I didn't mention radios (or the backlight, for that matter) because I was replying to a specific question regarding the effect of the speed bump.