alt Hacker NewsThe difference is passive. Your phone is constantly pooling for both 4g, and 5g signal. Then using that to pool for notifications from apps.
This is stuff your Nokia didn’t do at the same scale. At best some sms at a significantly reduced polling rate.
My apps auto update in the background. Something my Nokia from 2007 didn’t do.
So there are many passively provided features but by definition they are not obvious to you and as such harder to appreciate.
If you have an iPhone: I use low power mode constantly. I have an automation to use it at 75% or less battery.
I get roughly 2 days of battery life without any YouTube usage.
> At best some sms at a significantly reduced polling rate.
SMS was piggybacked onto the control plane messaging. That is why the limit was 160 chars (only space available) and why texts can still work when the cell towers are overloaded.