>
> by the way, a dummy question:
>
>  which of EDGE(2G) and Wi-Fi uses more electricity?

Jeff Sharkey gave a great presentation at Google I/O on this topic:

http://code.google.com/events/io/sessions/CodingLifeBatteryLife.html

In a nutshell, on a milliwatts-per-hour level, WiFi uses more power.
However, since EDGE is so much slower, it takes much more time to download
the same thing, and so for a given file, WiFi uses less power.

-- 
Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy)
http://commonsware.com
_The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development_ Version 2.0 Available!



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