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[John Lenton <john.lenton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Lucio Torre <lucio.torre@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> From: Loïc Minier <loic.minier@xxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 7:20 PM
> Subject: [Ubuntu-push-devs] Of efficient usage of the cell radio
> To: ubuntu-push-devs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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>         Hey
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> Found this video interesting:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSIB2pDvH3E&list=FLFFBkJcBLERnUclMzr1UsNg&index=1
> DevBytes: Efficient Data Transfers - Understanding the Cell Radio
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> bottom-line: whenever you use the radio, it stays on for a long-time
> draining battery.  So while you should optimize for size of the data and
> frequency of the updates, it's much more important to optimize for the
> frequency as to keep the radio off as often as possible.
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> This is meant for app authors, but obviously it also implies we hould
> batch updates between apps whenever possible for the same reasons.

one of the things we're going to have at some point is something like
"priorities", so we can group together messages of lower priority,
etc. v0 won't have enough information to make reasonable decisions
around when it's possible to delay/group the notification.