One switch stops your phone talking to the tower. The other only stops it browsing. That difference decides how much charge you keep.Airplane mode wins, and the reason has little to do with data. Switching off cellular data stops your phone from browsing; it stays connected to the tower for calls and texts, which means the radio inside it stays awake and keeps transmitting. Airplane mode switches that radio off. How much charge you save depends almost entirely on one thing: how strong your signal was to begin with.About The AuthorAt heart, I am a storyteller drawn to the watershed moments that bend the technology landscape. I braid narrative with data, humanise statistics, and trace the arc from first spark to world-changing impact. My reportage, features and reviews are witty, sardonic, visual and vivid, using anecdote to illuminate rather than eviscerate.
As a technology journalist with over sixteen years of experience, I have travelled the world and the seven seas, covered every major tech conference worth its lanyard, chronicled the defining breakthroughs of the last decade and a half, and played a pivotal role in launching some of India’s most important technology publishing platforms across web, print and TV.
