

But bear with me and let me return to my theme of irrelevancy. I realise I'm sounding a bit like a Luddite here, and of course I'm not opposed to progress. You'll have paid more for a flagship smartphone with its cutting edge data speeds.If you're paying for a faster data connection or being hit by data overage charges then that's your wallet impacted too.There's far more power drain on your smartphone when not being actively used, as the device tries desperately to maintain a 4G and then 3.5G connection, however weak.But there's a big price to pay in several ways. For these, 4G and 3.5G data speeds are great, getting you the data you need without too much waiting around. Bringing up web pages, streaming some YouTube video that you fancy watching, and so on. Now, it's a little different for online content where your needs can't be anticipated. Your smartphone should be working so that you don't have to wait. Driving, exercising, socialising, working, playing. It can grab all your updates while you're doing 'real life'. No waiting, no fussing, no 'resuming.', no 'updating.' Again, your phone is smart. When you tap the icon for Twitter, Facebook or whatever, you want to see the latest updates and mentions instantly, there and then. In other words, grabbing email is largely a background task. It's supposed to be monitoring your email inboxes and grabbing new email while you're out and about doing other things. Not because your data is Gigabits per second, but because your smartphone is intelligent. Aside from the obvious (taking calls, texts), when you pick up your smartphone and tap the appropriate email shortcut icon or widget, your latest emails should be there on the screen instantly. Let me start with how a smartphone should behave when mobile.
