Pros/Cons of Always on WiFi from new update.

[clifference]

almost a year later.... I played around with this on my lumia 928. with wifi always on, idling drains about ~2% an hour...turning it off it drains less than 1% an hour.. probably around 0.5% or less

 

[fieldbaker]

Ok I did this myself and from what I learned, WiFi really consumed battery. I have turned my WiFi off to test the theory, looks like as long you have 3+ signal bars of LTE you'll most likely have better battery life than being on WiFi all day when connected. IPhone (which I came from) saved alot of battery when connected to WiFi, but on network, it consumed greatly. Its strange how iDevices handles WiFi very well. But for Nokia, I see otherwise so instead of WiFi, Nokia can handle LTE where iPhones couldn't.

This! It's just like this on my Nokia 1020. Wifi consumes more battery than celluar which i found very strange. I was a iPhone user before the switch aswell and using wifi would greatly improve my battery life and celluar would drain it faster. I've tested this on my 1020 and I actually get BETTER battery life when i use celluar only. Why is this?!