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Mophie Announces Juice Pack Air for iPhone 5
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mine isn't "terrible", it's just it rarely lasts more than 6-8 hours of my usual usage without a charge. i don't consider that bad battery life, so much as I'm just a heavy user.
i would only use something like this when i'm out and about at an outdoor event or somewhere where I'll be away from an outlet/charger for over 8 hours.
Then you might as well be carrying a Nokia 3310 and get a month out the battery because your likely not using any of the "smart" features of your "smart"phone.
As soon as you start using this phones features, to play games, stream video, watch movies, listen to music, browse the web and more, your battery life plumets, so much so that 3hrs "use" a day can put you at the point of needing to charge midway through the day.
Apple, im sure, rates its battery life by old Dumb-phone standards, so they are saying here, buy this super smartphone, but only use it like you used your phone in the 1990s if you want your battery to last the day,
Seems backwards thinking to me, not innovative .
My iPhone 5 battery life is also terrible. And yes, Apple have looked at it, and changing it has done nothing.
It doesn't last me until I get home at night after work, and I don't do things like streaming video.
As for this, it looks good. And then you see that it makes the already uncomfortably long iPhone 5 even longer. Fail.
It doesn't last me until I get home at night after work, and I don't do things like streaming video.
As for this, it looks good. And then you see that it makes the already uncomfortably long iPhone 5 even longer. Fail.
but if the phone had been designed correctly to begin with you shouldn't need to do this, it should have been built with a battery that had the legs to last a full day of use, if this meant that it would have to be half again as thick and a third again as heavy, so be it.
Apple has anorexia when it comes to its devices, they are perfectly functional as either works of non-functioning art, or tethered device.
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First you said this.Nightarchaon said:
Now this.
It's nice your employer allows you to 'play games, stream video, watch movies, listen to music, browse the web and more'.
Steve Jobs was always obsessed with thin & light at any cost. It's about pretty products at Apple. Nothing new.
Question: how's the phone signal where you are? Have you been using your phone in the same places this whole time? A weak signal could be part of your problem.
The reason I ask is that there's one place I go regularly, a theater, that's in a basement and has really marginal phone reception. Every time I go there, my iPhone (and indeed, other phones I've had before it), will churn through battery like crazy trying to seek and hold onto a signal. The phone will actually get warmer from energy use. Again, this is across multiple, different types of phones and occurs nowhere else I go, so it's definitely the location. I can lose 30% of my battery in a couple hours down there.
Thanks to Apples locked down Eco System, they're going to dictate to everyone. Mophie's lucky to get permission to do business
The signal where I live is excellent. I get mostly 4G LTE service. I live and work in the Washington DC area, and stick within about a 10 mile radius as I go about my day. Even when I'm sitting in one place, the phone will simply decrease in battery by about 5 to 7% every hour 24 hours a day no matter what I'm doing. I heard it thousand times, How some people can use their phone for two days without ever putting it on charger. How I should go back to the store and replace it (which I've done a couple times over the years). How I should disable some functions. The fact is, the iPhone is designed to last for about the waking day of a normal person. If you use the phone more than the typical person does, even if just by a little bit, you will Be exceeding what Apple designed the phone to do. Because, as I'm sure Apple sees it, what's the good of having a phone that lasts into the night while you're sleeping. Better to design the battery size and the performance of the phone around the need to run for 12 to 16 waking hours.
Well, I use my phone a little bit more than the usual person, Clearly, so I would just appreciate the opportunity to buy a phone that had a larger battery inside of it without having to buy an add-on case which will make the phone wider and taller as well. It doesn't appear that Apple is willing to do that, unfortunately. There is an entire market out there for people who want a phone that lasts an extended amount of time. That's why Motorola made the Maxx model.
Can you buy this in a Best Buy or order them? I'm looking into one of these, just worries me about licensed and non-licensed stuff.
Worry about the retail markup and all that people-contact that you have to have at a local retail store
Steve Jobs was always obsessed with thin & light at any cost. It's about pretty products at Apple. Nothing new.
But he was also obsessed with revolutionary products, not evolutionary like the current management seems to be.
First you said this.
Now this.
It's nice your employer allows you to 'play games, stream video, watch movies, listen to music, browse the web and more'.
i do all that on the way TOO and FROM work, on the train, on my 1hr 30min each way commute.. during the working day i need email, calls and web access frequently whilst MOBILE, cant be tethered charging all day.
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Current management isn't even being evolutionary, they just seem to be trying to thin down and lighten everything, its just anorexia at Apple at the moment.
Perhaps Apple should offer different battery capacity just like they offer different storage capacities. Then people could choose the standard model the whole way up to the Nightarchaon model that will last at least 11 hours. Of course, that'd mean designing the phone to accommodate the largest battery, but people who don't have a 3 hour commute wont mind that compromise.
Good luck.
At the moment, im using a jailborken ipad mini as a phone.. you should see the wierd looks i get on the train
Samsung just announced the Galaxy Note 8, which will be sold as a phone, unlike the iPad Mini. Why Apple doesn't let you use a cellular iPad as a phone is beyond me to understand.
What jb apps do you use to use the Mini as a phone?
Couldn't agree with you more. I'm using a Mophie battery case for my 4S and it adds so much more bulk than would be necessary to accomodate a larger battery inside the phone itself. I'd rather add 5mm to the device than turn my phone into a big plastic mess. Even the best of these external cases still adds a TON of bulk.
Here's hoping some breakthrough in battery tech makes the thinness vs. battery debate irrelevant.
PhoneIt-iPad or some such, there are a few, PhoneIt-iPad i used on my iPad 1, but needed earphones with a mic in.
Eh... you know what will happen - the phone makers will up the power usage to whatever extent necessary to get to the same "one day" battery life.