[/img]One of the world's top suppliers of cellular infrastructure,
Nokia Siemens, has dropped some juicy knowledge today that Apple's new
iOS 4.2 update supports a technology called network-controlled fast
dormancy that better optimizes how the phone connects to the network.
The company touts that it's a win-win -- better battery life, less
unnecessary network utilization -- and also points out that Nokia
implemented the technique in all of its smartphones starting earlier
this year. Since network-controlled fast dormancy is a feature that
benefits the network itself as much as it benefits the individual
user, knocking out two power players like Nokia and Apple (over half
of new smartphone sales, NSN points out) should make a big dent.
Interestingly, NSN seems to have arrived at this discovery through
"tests" it conducted, not by working with Apple on implementing it.
Sure, we don't pretend to know all the interactions that occur between
manufacturers, carriers, and suppliers during a phone's development,
but it certainly seems to us that Apple would benefit by engaging
infrastructure companies early and often as these baseband updates
come together -- particularly as it seeks to keep a tight lid on the
very congestion issues that network-controlled fast dormancy is
designed to help eliminate. Either way, it's interesting to see how
quick Nokia Siemens was to probe for the change this time around.
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