Frame of reference for polling with regards to battery life?
<p>I know this is a somewhat abstract question and that an answer depends on the device, network, user preferences and so forth. Nevertheless I'm really in need of some educated opinion with regards to how "excessive" I can allow my polling to be. Let's say one of my typical polling requests consists of an empty request body (a simple GET) and a couple of hundred kilobytes in response, would a service that polls for this every 4 hours be in the category of excessive? </p>

<p>I'm in the unfortunate situation of not being able to use C2DM, so please no answers suggesting this.</p>
